Confidant vs. Confident — What's the Difference?

The confidant ( or ; feminine: confidante, same pronunciation) is a character in a story whom a protagonist confides in and trusts. Confidants may be other principal characters, characters who command trust by virtue of their position such as doctors or other authority figures, or anonymous confidants with no separate role in the narrative.

Feeling or showing certainty, as of success

One to whom secrets or private matters are disclosed.

Feeling or showing confidence in oneself; self-assured

A character in a drama or fiction, such as a trusted friend or servant, who serves as a device for revealing the inner thoughts or intentions of a main character.

(Obsolete) Confiding; trustful.

A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.

Very sure of something; positive.

One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.

Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.

Someone to whom private matters are confided

Forward, impudent.

Obsolete form of confidant

See Confidant.

Having or marked by confidence or assurance;

Persuaded of; very sure;

Not liable to error in judgment or action;