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SELF-DOUBT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-doubt mean?
• SELF-DOUBT (noun)
The noun SELF-DOUBT has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SELF-DOUBT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lack of self-confidence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
diffidence; self-distrust; self-doubt
Hypernyms ("self-doubt" is a kind of...):
timidity; timidness; timorousness (fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-doubt"):
hesitance; hesitancy (a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something)
unassertiveness (diffidence about self promotion)
Context examples
My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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