The state or quality of being confident; self-assurance or the act of confiding in someone.
From Latin confidentia, derived from confidere 'to trust completely.' The suffix -cy converts the concept into an abstract noun representing a state or quality.
Medieval Latin writers distinguished between confidency (trust in others) and confidence (trust in oneself)—a subtle difference that modern English has largely collapsed, losing a useful distinction.
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