self-assuredness
English
Etymology
self-assured + -ness
Noun
self-assuredness (uncountable)
- The quality of being self-assured.
- 2006, Cottle, Thomas J., A Sense of Self: The Work of Affirmation, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, page 37:
- 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.
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