Definition of Self-assurance

1. Noun. Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities. "She spoke with authority"

Exact synonyms: Assurance, Authority, Confidence, Self-confidence, Sureness
Generic synonyms: Certainty
Attributes: Certain, Sure, Incertain, Uncertain, Unsure
Derivative terms: Confident, Self-confident, Sure, Sure

Definition of Self-assurance

1. Noun. The state or quality of being confident in oneself. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-assurance

self-advancement
self-aggrandising
self-aggrandizement
self-aggrandizing
self-analysis
self-annihilation
self-appointed
self-authenticating
self-aware
self-awareness
self-belief
self-billing
self-blood
self-build
self-built
self-care units
self-censorship
self-centered
self-centeredness
self-centration

Literary usage of Self-assurance

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

1. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer, John William Cunliffe (1915)
"... the silent self-assurance of the the whole British nation was struck with mean, sensual man. There are as many grief at the loss of the Titanic, ..."

2. Popular Lectures on Theological Themes by Archibald Alexander Hodge (1887)
"son into his grasp entirely, what better thing can he do than to render him morally callous and fill him with presumptuous self-assurance ? ..."

3. Things as They are by Bolton Hall (1909)
"self-assurance THEY ARE " THREE times three is ten," said the child. " Nine," said the Teacher. "It doesn't seem so to me," said the child under ..."

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