Self-assuredness
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being self-assured. uncountable
"For what makes the child in question so appealing is that with words and gestures he is able to communicate to us this understanding of self as well as a (consequent) self-assuredness, a self-assuredness that has no resemblance to what we normally think of as cockiness."
Example
More examples"For what makes the child in question so appealing is that with words and gestures he is able to communicate to us this understanding of self as well as a (consequent) self-assuredness, a self-assuredness that has no resemblance to what we normally think of as cockiness."
Etymology
From self-assured + -ness.
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