overconfidence
- noun
- /ˌoʊvərˈkɒnfɪdəns/
- His overconfidence led him to underestimate the difficulty of the exam.
- overconfidence bias
But many people make the mistake of crossing overconfidence to arrogance.
- But many people make the mistake of crossing overconfidence to arrogance.
- Part of it was, I mean, for me, I prefer accuracy rather than overconfidence.
- There's things like overconfidence, thinking you have more willpower than you actually have.
- And it's, and, and it's overconfidence, shall we say.
- So one is why do humans trust humans more than AI and all have overconfidence in humans.
- So again, if the guy's extremely charismatic, overconfident, but I thought overconfidence didn't exist.
- So they they seem to be here some overconfidence here, but it's in fact not particularly strong.
- Like there's there is value in overconfidence sometimes I do if you would, you know, take, you know, take Magnus Carlsen, right.
- That hate overconfidence that, that the people who truly, truly hate me hate me because they think like I'm in.
- They stood out because of their arrogance and conceit, overconfidence, mocking, truculence and impetuousness.
Examples
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Boys, however, tend to show more confidence and sometimes overconfidence.
Academic text (2008) -
Such overconfidence could be ruinous.
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And it's, and, and it's overconfidence, shall we say.
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So they they seem to be here some overconfidence here, but it's in fact not particularly strong.
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Just my opinion, based on their overconfidence.
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Be careful of overconfidence, eh?
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Your overconfidence is your weakness.
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And I would compensate with overconfidence when I was younger.
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As noted earlier, overconfidence has not been examined in prior research on expert system use.
Academic text (1997) -
The no-explanation group had the highest level of overconfidence, followed by the explanation group.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
Too much pride in yourself and your abilities
Complete confidence that something is true without enough proof
Being too confident in a rude way
Being much more sure of yourself than you should be
Too much confidence that makes you ignore risks or mistakes
Too much confidence that ignores other people's views
Too much confidence that makes you act without respect, for example interrupting others
Thinking you are much better or more important than other people
Antonyms
How Confident
Surface Forms
Morphology
overconfidence = confidence (transparent) = over + confidence
The word is formed by the productive prefix 'over-' meaning 'excessive' added to the noun 'confidence', yielding 'excessive confidence', which is directly inferable.
Etymology
Overconfidence is made of over- meaning 'too much' and confidence, which comes from a root meaning 'trust' and is like the word confide. So overconfidence is like having 'too much trust' in yourself, which helps explain why people take risks or miss problems.