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Self-doubt   /sɛlf-daʊt/   Listen
Self-doubt

noun
1.
Lack of self-confidence.  Synonyms: diffidence, self-distrust.






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"Self-doubt" Quotes from Famous Books



... scold! But it came home to him strongly that for her own sake and his it would be better there should be explanations. After all things had been going untowardly for many weeks. His nature moved slowly and with much self-doubt, but it was plain to him now that ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... seemed to writhe, now, with self-doubt and truculence; his eyes were on the photos of the heroes, beginning way back; Goddard. Von Braun. Clifford, who had first landed on the far side of the Moon. LaCrosse, who had reached Mercury, closest to the sun. Vasiliev, who had just come back from ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... the incidents of the campaign and its culminating event with a sense of self-doubt poisoning his triumph, that which most sickened him of his own course was not the overt insult from the financial emperor, but the soft-palmed gratulation of ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams



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