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Definition: Overconfidence |
OverconfidenceNoun1. Total certainty or greater certainty that circumstances warrant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "overconfidence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1890. (references) |
Synonyms: OverconfidenceSynonyms: certitude (n), cocksureness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rashness | Noun: rashness; Adjective: temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion; overconfidence, presumption, audacity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Overconfidence |
| Specialty definitions using "overconfidence": GOLIATH, Gossip. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Your overconfidence is your weakness (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We know, however, that nothing is as dangerous as overconfidence, in war or in peace. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Overconfidence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Overconfidence" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
overconfidence | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "overconfidence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vetëbesim (assurance, self confidence, self esteem, self sufficiency, self-assurance, self-importance). (various references) | |
Arabic | زهو (pride, vainness), عجب (admire, appreciate, commend, elation, enamor, enamour, fall for, marvel, please, pomp, strike, vainglory, weirdness, wonder, wonderment), ثقة عمياء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | прекалена самоувереност (swagger). (various references) | |
Chinese | 过分自信 (Overconfident). (various references) | |
Czech | přílišná dùvìra. (various references) | |
Farsi | اطمینان بیش ازحد. (various references) | |
French | présomption, confiance aveugle. (various references) | |
German | Vermessenheit (boldness, impudence, presumption, presumptuousness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בטחון יתר. (various references) | |
Italian | presunzione (conceit, confidence, presumption, self-conceit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鼻っ張り . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はなっぱり. (various references) | |
Korean | 과 . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | overconfidenceay.(various references) | |
Russian | самоуверенность (assurance, assuredness, boldness, self confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence), чрезмерная уверенность. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prekomerno samopouzdanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | exceso de seguridad. (various references) | |
Turkish | kendine fazla güvenme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самовпевненість (aplomb, arrogance, assuming, assumption, assuredness, confidence, outrecuidance, presumption, self confidence, self sufficiency, self-assertion). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | ofermod. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "overconfidence": overconfidences. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "overconfidence" (pronounced ō"verkÄ"nfuduns) |
| 9 | -k Ä" n f u d u n s | confidence. |
| 5 | -u d u n s | coincidence, decadence, dissidence, evidence, incidence, precedence, Providence, residence. |
| 4 | -d u n s | abundance, accordance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, cadence, correspondence, credence, dependence, guidance, impedance, imprudence, independence, interdependence, jurisprudence, overabundance, overdependence, prudence, riddance, subsidence, transcendence. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, acceptance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, assistance, assurance, audience, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, dalliance, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, province, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-e-f-i-n-n-o-o-r-v" | |
-3 letters: noncoercive, reconceived, reconvinced. | |
-4 letters: conference, confidence, reconceive, reconvened, reconvince. | |
-5 letters: conceived, conceiver, concerned, convinced, convincer, endocrine, environed, inference, reconvene. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-e-f-i-n-n-o-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: overconfidences, videoconference. | |
+2 letters: videoconferences. | |
+3 letters: videoconferencing. | |
+4 letters: videoconferencings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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