Meanings
nounself-assuredness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being self-assured.
For what makes the child in question so appealing is that with words and gestures he is able to communicate to us this understanding of self as well as a (consequent) self-assuredness, a self-assuredness that has no resemblance to what we normally think of as cockiness.
2006, Thomas J. Cottle, A Sense of Self: The Work of Affirmation, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, page 37
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