self-confident

adj

Etymology

From self- + confident.

  1. derived from confidens
  2. derived from confident
  3. prefixed as self-confident — “self + confident

Definitions

  1. Confident in one's own abilities.

    • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at self-confident. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at self-confident. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at self-confident

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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