COCKSURENESS Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

cocksureness

noun

as in certainty

a state of mind in which one is free from doubt the cocksureness with which he presented his investment scheme convinced others to jump in

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Noun

And while borrowers may be hoping for a reprieve, there isn't much certainty about where borrowing costs go from here.

— Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026
Clear regulation can provide organizations with greater certainty about responsible adoption.

— Ekramy El Zaghat, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of certainty

Noun

The optimizers have all the money; the empaths only really have one another—and the assurance, however fleeting, that there are more of us than there are of them.

— Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
The Membership programme, launched in 2025, offers multiple tiers designed to support different levels of assurance, insight and control.

— SJ Studio, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of assurance

Noun

Jonesboro is 2-0 for the first time since 2019 and should have four quarters of confidence after back-to-back one-score wins.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
To reach the quarterfinals in New York, Zheng had to accept her newfound station in tennis — not to abandon her confidence for the sake of humility, but to combine her natural self-belief with acceptance of her reality and a new perspective.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of confidence

Noun

Judge Anne Hwang determined his prior murder conviction no longer applied as a felony under a landmark 2016 change in California law that barred prosecutors from trying juveniles as adults without a judge’s approval.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The perpetrator has no convictions in North Carolina, but SLF is blaming Cooper.

— Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of conviction

Noun

There was that billowing and entirely formal satisfaction of sails filled with wind.

— John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Gulf News connects the trend with the satisfaction of making something from scratch, whether the finished product is a loaf of bread or a batch of cookies pulled straight from the oven.

— Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of satisfaction

Noun

Even in the fixedness of their forms—their sententious certitude—a single work may conflate the erotic and the machinic, the vernacular and the archetypal, the abstract and the practical.

— Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Far too many candidates think AI can solve an office’s hardest problems, and the certitude among candidates with tech backgrounds is off the charts.

— Max Taves, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of certitude

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