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misconfidence

noun

Etymology

From mis- + confidence.

  1. derived from confidence
  2. derived from cōnfīdentia
  3. inherited from confidence
  4. prefixed as misconfidence — “mis + confidence”

Definitions

  1. Lack of confidence or trust.

    • Slavery taught fear; fear begat misconfidence, which is the greatest blight resting upon the Negro today.
    • This whole question revolves about a very apparent condition of misconfidence in the Executive Board.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for misconfidence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA