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COCKSURENESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does cocksureness mean?

• COCKSURENESS (noun)
The noun COCKSURENESS has 1 sense:

1. total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant

Familiarity information: COCKSURENESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• COCKSURENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

certitude; cocksureness; overconfidence

Hypernyms ("cocksureness" is a kind of...):

certainty (the state of being certain)

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