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Definition:
c) confidence
German translation:
das Selbstbewusstsein
Sample text:
The interviews of Jose Saramago are usually delivered with such APLOMB and linguistic precision that journalists often dispense with editing before sending the transcript to a newspaper
(Richard A. Preto-Rodas in World Literature Today Magazine - Winter 1999)
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aplomb
Means self-confident assurance; poise
Date: 1823 from the Middle French "a plomb" (aufrecht, senkrecht)
Synonyms: confidence, assurance, aplomb, self-confidence, self-possession. These nouns denote a feeling of emotional security resulting from faith in oneself.
CONFIDENCE is a firm belief in one's powers, abilities, or capacities: "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face" (Eleanor Roosevelt).
ASSURANCE even more strongly stresses certainty and can suggest arrogance: "How can you explain an abstruse theory with such assurance?"
APLOMB implies calm poise: "It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals... with aplomb" (Walt Whitman).
SELF-CONFIDENCE stresses trust in one's own self-sufficiency: "The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence" (George S. Patton).
SELF-POSSESSION implies composure arising from control over one's own reactions: "In life courtesy and self-possession... are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise... from never being swept away, whatever the emotion, into confusion or dullness" (William Butler Yeats).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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