n. Function: noun
1
Synonyms: WORD 8, guarantee, pledge, warrant
Related Words: parole, promise, troth; plight; agreement, compact, covenant, pact, understanding
2
Synonyms: CERTAINTY , assuredness, certitude, confidence, conviction, sureness, surety
Related Words: credit; dependence, reliance, trust
Contrasted Words: suspicion, uncertainty; disbelief, incredulity, unbelief
Antonyms: mistrust; dubiousness
3
Synonyms: SAFETY , safeness, security
4
Synonyms: CONFIDENCE 2, aplomb, self-assurance, self-assuredness, self-confidence, self-trust
Related Words: composure, equanimity, sangfroid
Contrasted Words: agitation, disquiet, jumpiness, nervousness, shakiness, skittishness; anxiety, doubt, foreboding, funk, perturbation, trepidation
Antonyms: alarm
5
Synonyms: TEMERITY , audacity, brashness, hardihood, hardiness, nerve
Related Words: brazenness, cockiness, presumption; conceit, self-conceit, self-importance, vanity
Contrasted Words: diffidence, modesty, shyness, timidity; self-depreciation, self-effacement, unassumingness, unpretentiousness