Contextualizebeta

underconfidence

noun

Etymology

From under- + confidence.

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

Definitions

  1. Insufficient confidence.

    • The cycle of overconfidence becomes a cycle of underconfidence because nobody knows who is holding worthless paper.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for underconfidence. 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