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Confidence vs. Moral — What's the Difference?

Confidence vs. Moral — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Confidence and Moral

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Confidence

Confidence is a state of being clear-headed either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Confidence comes from a Latin word 'fidere' which means "to trust"; therefore, having self-confidence is having trust in one's self.

Moral

A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim.

Confidence

The feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something
We had every confidence in the staff
He had gained the young man's confidence

Moral

Of or concerned with the judgment of right or wrong of human action and character
Moral scrutiny.
A moral quandary.

Confidence

The telling of private matters or secrets with mutual trust
Someone with whom you may raise your suspicions in confidence
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Moral

Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior
A moral lesson.

Confidence

A belief or conviction that an outcome will be favorable
I have every confidence that we can find a solution.

Moral

Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior; virtuous
A moral life.

Confidence

Belief in the certainty of something
The engineers determined with confidence that the ship could withstand heavy seas.

Moral

Arising from conscience or the sense of right and wrong
A moral obligation.

Confidence

Belief in the effectiveness of one's own abilities or in one's favorable acceptance by others; self-confidence.

Moral

Having psychological rather than physical or tangible effects
A moral victory.
Moral support.

Confidence

Trust or faith in a person or thing
We are placing our confidence in you to get the job done.

Moral

Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction, rather than on the actual evidence
A moral certainty.

Confidence

A trusting relationship
I took them into my confidence.

Moral

The lesson or principle contained in or taught by a fable, a story, or an event.

Confidence

That which is confided; a secret
A friend does not betray confidences.

Moral

A concisely expressed precept or general truth; a maxim
Likes to follow the moral "To each, his own.".

Confidence

A feeling of assurance that a confidant will keep a secret
I am telling you this in strict confidence.

Moral

Morals Rules or habits of conduct, especially of sexual conduct, with reference to standards of right and wrong
A person of loose morals.
A decline in the public morals.

Confidence

Of, relating to, or involving a swindle or fraud
A confidence scheme.
A confidence trickster.

Moral

Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
Moral judgments;
A moral poem
A moral obligation

Confidence

Self-assurance.

Moral

Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
A moral action

Confidence

A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.

Moral

Capable of right and wrong action.
A moral agent

Confidence

Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.

Moral

Probable but not proved.
A moral certainty

Confidence

(dated) Boldness; presumption.

Moral

Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
A moral victory;
Moral support

Confidence

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.
A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God.

Moral

(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.

Confidence

That in which faith is put or reliance had.
The Lord shall be thy confidence.

Moral

Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
A candidate with strong morals

Confidence

Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
Be confident to speak, Northumberland;We three are but thyself.

Moral

(obsolete) A morality play.

Confidence

The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; - often with self prefixed.
Your wisdom is consumed in confidence;Do not go forth to-day.
But confidence then bore thee on secureEither to meet no danger, or to findMatter of glorious trial.

Moral

A moral certainty.

Confidence

Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.
As confident as is the falcon's flightAgainst a bird, do I with Mowbray fight.

Moral

An exact counterpart.

Confidence

Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.
Sir, I desire some confidence with you.
I am confident that very much be done.

Moral

(intransitive) To moralize.

Confidence

Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
The fool rageth and is confident.

Moral

Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.
Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue.
Mankind is broken loose from moral bands.
She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.

Confidence

Giving occasion for confidence.
The cause was more confident than the event was prosperous.

Moral

Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.
The wiser and more moral part of mankind.

Confidence

Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities;
His assurance in his superiority did not make him popular
After that failure he lost his confidence
She spoke with authority

Moral

Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense.

Confidence

A feeling of trust (in someone or something);
I have confidence in our team
Confidence is always borrowed, never owned

Moral

Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.

Confidence

A state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable;
Public confidence in the economy

Moral

Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; - opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.

Confidence

A trustful relationship;
He took me into his confidence
He betrayed their trust

Moral

Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.

Confidence

A secret that is confided or entrusted to another;
Everyone trusted him with their confidences
The priest could not reveal her confidences

Moral

The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; - usually in the plural.
Corrupt in their morals as vice could make them.

Moral

The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.
Thus may we gather honey from the weed,And make a moral of the devil himself.
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.

Moral

A morality play. See Morality, 5.

Moral

To moralize.

Moral

The significance of a story or event;
The moral of the story is to love thy neighbor

Moral

Relating to principles of right and wrong; i.e. to morals or ethics;
Moral philosophy

Moral

Concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles;
Moral sense
A moral scrutiny
A moral lesson
A moral quandary
Moral convictions
A moral life

Moral

Adhering to ethical and moral principles;
It seems ethical and right
Followed the only honorable course of action
Had the moral courage to stand alone

Moral

Arising from the sense of right and wrong;
A moral obligation

Moral

Psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect;
A moral victory
Moral support

Moral

Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction rather than actual evidence;
A moral certainty

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