Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of confidence; uncertainty; hesitation; doubt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ confidence

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Examples

  • Your shoulders sag in dull unconfidence but there is really no need for it you too shine as an individual. written on Jan 31st, 2007

    jaeaxe Diary Entry jaeaxe 2009

  • It has reached a kind of nadir of unconfidence, in which production heads cower timorously amid heaps of scripts and treatments, afraid to make anything out of a fear that if they do they may lose what little ground they still hold.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • It has reached a kind of nadir of unconfidence, in which production heads cower timorously amid heaps of scripts and treatments, afraid to make anything out of a fear that if they do they may lose what little ground they still hold.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • It has reached a kind of nadir of unconfidence, in which production heads cower timorously amid heaps of scripts and treatments, afraid to make anything out of a fear that if they do they may lose what little ground they still hold.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • April 1st, 2010 7:27 am ET sometimes bullying takes place due to a lak of hope hmm and can be dangerouse to gamble with someones life there are other reasons too! poor kid she may have not recieved the lending hand and support she needed to not pay attention to this level of shame and unconfidence in the bully teachers are limited in what they can do each case is different have peace and respect correct answers come from eachother you have to learn

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