confidences
SayKON-fi-duhns-izUS/ˈkɑn.fɪ.dəns.ɪz/UK/ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns.ɪz/
- 1Plural of confidence.
Over the years they exchanged countless confidences during late-night talks.
A good therapist keeps a client's confidences strictly private.
Note
The plural is where confidence usually means a secret rather than a feeling: people exchange confidences, share them, and keep someone's confidences private. Self-assurance and trust are normally treated as a single mass, so the plural rarely carries those meanings. A sentence like "their confidences grew" therefore reads as secrets multiplying, not as courage increasing.
confidences is a form of confidence
confidence, noun: A firm belief in one's own abilities, judgment, or power to succeed. Full entry
- Forms
- confidenceconfidences plural
- Spelling
- confidence → confidences: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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