confidences
Trusts privately exchanged
Confidences is the plural of confidence, but the word typically appears in this form only in certain senses.
Someone who shares their confidences reveals private matters: She told me things in confidence, and I've kept her confidences ever since.
To exchange confidences is to share secrets mutually.
The sense of self-assurance rarely pluralizes—you don't usually have multiple confidences in yourself.
Trust in one's capabilities
- self-esteemOne's sense of worth
- poiseGraceful, unshakable calm
- boldnessFearless readiness to act
- assertivenessConfident self-expression quality
courage · certainty · conviction · composure · assuredness · aplomb · nerve · audacity
Acts of revealing information
- revelationsSurprising facts made known
- admissionsActs of letting in
- confessionsActs of revealing guilt
- intimaciesClose personal connections
whispers · trusts · shared secrets · heart-to-hearts · unburdening · sworn secrecy · sensitive information
Systems of worship
- beliefsAccepted truths, personal
- reliancesStates of depending
- assurancesConfident pledges given
- certaintiesAssured truths
convictions · credences · dependencies · expectations · hopes · securities · reliabilities · trustworthiness
Gaps between events
- levelsHeights or ranked stages
- marginsEdges of a page
- probabilitiesQuantified chances of events
- parametersDefined boundaries or constraints
estimates · ranges · thresholds · bounds · calculations · percentages · measurements · degrees
self-belief
Trust in one's capabilities
- self-esteemOne's sense of worth
- poiseGraceful, unshakable calm
- boldnessFearless readiness to act
assertiveness · courage · certainty · conviction · composure · assuredness · aplomb · nerve · audacity · fearlessness
disclosures
Acts of revealing information
- revelationsSurprising facts made known
- admissionsActs of letting in
- confessionsActs of revealing guilt
intimacies · whispers · trusts · shared secrets · heart-to-hearts · unburdening · sworn secrecy · sensitive information
faiths
Systems of worship
- beliefsAccepted truths, personal
- reliancesStates of depending
- assurancesConfident pledges given
certainties · convictions · credences · dependencies · expectations · hopes · securities · reliabilities · trustworthiness · sureties
intervals
Gaps between events
- levelsHeights or ranked stages
- marginsEdges of a page
- probabilitiesQuantified chances of events
parameters · estimates · ranges · thresholds · bounds · calculations · percentages · measurements · degrees · calibrations
- childhood secretswhispering, secret diaries, pinky promise, secret notes, coded messages
- unwritten rulespersonal space, eye contact, tipping, queue jumping, holding doors
- whisperswhisper, whispering, hushed tone, soft voice, low voice
- intimacykiss, hug, embrace, closeness, snuggling
confidencesinsecurities
Anxieties about one's adequacy
doubts · self-doubts · anxieties · apprehensions · fears
confidencespublic knowledge
Facts anyone can access
common knowledge · public information · disclosures · revelations · general knowledge
confidencesdistrusts
Lacks faith in
suspicions · mistrusts · distrust · wariness · skepticisms
- confidence trickFraud exploiting victim's trust
- confidence gameFraud using false trust
- in confidenceShared with expected secrecy
- votes of no confidenceFormal rejection of leadership
- with confidenceIn a self-assured way
- vote of confidenceFormal expression of support
confidence, overconfidence, self-confidence, nonconfidence, underconfidence