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Overconfidence

Overconfidence \O"ver*con"fi*dence\, n. Excessive confidence; too great reliance or trust.

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overconfidence

n. An excessive degree of confidence

WordNet
overconfidence

n. total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant [syn: certitude, cocksureness]

Usage examples of "overconfidence".

I remind all of you, however, that overconfidence is one of the most deadly enemies known to man.

If your overconfidence causes this part of it to miscarry as the other parts already have, you had better pray that you die here in Quaysar.

It would induce overconfidence in the Enemy, who would assume that his hardest battles in this system were now behind him.

Their overconfidence was only bolstered when the first Confederate sentries retreated before their celebratory advance.

Goessler in his overconfidence had left it bathed in the white illumination of the country pub's floodlighting, unsuspicious that he was even 'wanted for questioning'.

SHE IS HOPING FOR A DEGREE OF OVERCONFIDENCE, SHE IS HOPING THAT THE AGGITJ WILL BE LEFT OUTSIDE THE OFFICE, SHE IS HOPING THAT HOPFLEA HAS MANAGED TO GET HOLD OF A NAGAMAR DAGGER DART AND HIDDEN IT ON THE STEAM TABLE WHERE HE COOKS THE TOWELS.