Definition of Cocksureness

1. Noun. Total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant.

Exact synonyms: Certitude, Overconfidence
Generic synonyms: Certainty
Derivative terms: Cocksure, Overconfident

Definition of Cocksureness

1. Noun. The state or condition of being cocksure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cocksureness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocksureness

cockshuts
cockshy
cocksier
cocksiest
cocksmen
cockspur hawthorn
cockspur thorn
cockspurs
cockster
cocksuckers
cocksure
cocksurely
cocksureness (current term)
cocksurenesses
cockswain
cockswains
cocksy
cocktail
cocktail bar
cocktail dress
cocktail dresses
cocktail hat
cocktail lounge
cocktail parties
cocktail party
cocktail party effect
cocktail party graph

Literary usage of Cocksureness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Arthur Hugh Clough by James Insley Osborne (1920)
"So rank did cocksureness grow, and so completely did it overspread the land, that in the next generation Matthew Arnold, with the general agreement of the ..."

2. An Onlookers̓ Note-book by George William Erskine Russell (1902)
"And if it is permissible to translate Mr. Gladstone's dignified English into the vulgar tongue, that habit may be called cocksureness. ..."

3. A Literary History of Scotland by John Hepburn Millar (1903)
"cocksureness" is one of the notes of his writing, as indeed it is of the work of his staff—" cocksureness," and the species of rationalism which regards as ..."

4. Finland and the Finns by Arthur Reade (1917)
"Among the younger people, the attitude of condescension and cocksureness towards Christians is, perhaps, a little exaggerated; they give the impression that ..."

5. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"... (which is generally mere gaucherie) of our stolidity and cocksureness, and our dislike of your superior talkativeness and hustle and your cocksureness, ..."

6. The Pathway of Life by Leo Tolstoy, Archibald John Wolfe (1919)
"... but beyond that there is nothing more." What cocksureness! "Complex bodies are composed of elements, and elements are indissoluble." What cocksureness! ..."

7. Avenues to Health by Eustace Miles (1902)
"The author of this book cannot speak with the cocksureness of the ordinary advocates of these and other methods : he cannot choose for another more than one ..."

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