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self-doubt

[ self-dout ]

noun

  1. lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.


self-doubt

noun

  1. the act or state of doubting oneself
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • self-doubting adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-doubt1

First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences

Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

But self-doubt, while a healthy quality for human beings to have, is alas not a plus for politicians.

His self-doubt prompts him to exert more control and project bitterness.

The brightest luminaries are waking up to painful hangovers, and, we imagine, crippling self-doubt.

Go to work, board a plane or train if you were planning to travel—do not indulge in fear or self-doubt.

Now indeed I felt a sickness of self-doubt, for the wash of the invisible sea never had come to me until tonight.

Peter was very tender-hearted, very sympathetic, very prone to self-doubt.

If he were naturally observant, he would see this; if he were given at all to self-doubt, he would feel it.

Even Hildas morbid self-doubt could not deny the essential truth of this point of view.

Far from antagonizing, Periors judgment had aroused in her an anxious self-doubt, an anxious respect for her candid critic.

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