self-confidence

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

self-confidence
    n 1: freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities;
         "his assurance in his superiority did not make him
         popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she
         spoke with authority" [syn: {assurance}, {self-assurance},
         {confidence}, {self-confidence}, {authority}, {sureness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Self-confidence \Self`-con"fi*dence\, n.
   The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance.
   [1913 Webster]

         A feeling of self-confidence which supported and
         sustained him.                           --Beaconsfield.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-confidence":
      aplomb, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, balance, belief,
      boastfulness, certitude, cockiness, cocksureness, conceit,
      confidence, confidentness, conviction, courage, equability,
      equanimity, equilibrium, face, faith, haughtiness, hubris,
      independence, level head, levelheadedness, overconfidence,
      oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, pardonable pride,
      poise, pomposity, positiveness, possession, presence of mind,
      pride, pridefulness, proudness, purse-pride, restraint,
      sanguineness, security, self-assurance, self-command,
      self-consequence, self-control, self-esteem, self-importance,
      self-possession, self-reliance, self-respect, self-restraint,
      self-sufficiency, settled belief, stiff-necked pride,
      stiff-neckedness, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, trust,
      vanity, well-regulated mind

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