Confidences [noun]
Definition of Confidences:
belief in oneself
Synonyms of Confidences:
● Poise
● Morale
● Courage
● Tenacity
● Spirit
● Heart
● Nerve
● Dash
● élan
● Sureness
● Grit
● Spunk
● Daring
● Reliance
● Aplomb
● Cool
● Boldness
● Backbone
● Pluck
● Firmness
● Mettle
● Elan
Sentence/Example of Confidences:
Mrs. Pontellier was not a woman given to confidences, a characteristic hitherto contrary to her nature.
She was either aristocratic, or had something to hide, unless she responded to the confidences natural to people of that class.
These little confidences often end in his offering you half his bottle of wine and extending to you his cigarettes.
The same gentle gravity rested upon his features that had inspired the confidences of so many troubled souls and now won hers.
In spite of the fact that he had spent a good deal of time with Count Romanoff he had given him no confidences.
The baronet saw that Richard, half-fuddled, was ripe for any confidences that might aim at the destruction of his enemy.
You too have a skeleton in the family, I perceive; so let's unburden our souls and exchange confidences.
His manner of speaking of his family was deliciously droll; he yielded his confidences as artlessly as a child.
At times he actually invited lewd confidences though making every pretence of anger when they were imparted to him.
Then came the girl's naïve account of how her confidences had been received at home.