self-assuredness

English

Etymology

self-assured +‎ -ness

Noun

self-assuredness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being self-assured.
   • 2006, Thomas J. Cottle, A Sense of Self: The Work of Affirmation‎^[1], Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, page 37:

     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.