Word Meanings - CONFIDENTIALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.

CONFIDENCE
1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
SECRECY
1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy. The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. Shak. 2. That which is concealed; a secret. Shak. 3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
RELIANCE
1. The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority. In reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value. Macaulay. 2.
SELF-CONFIDENCE
The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.
SELF-RELIANCE
Reliance on one's own powers or judgment; self-trust.
UNCONFIDENCE
Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.
OVERCONFIDENCE
Excessive confidence; too great reliance or trust.