unconfidence

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ confidence.

Noun

unconfidence (uncountable)

1. Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.
   • 1991, Carolina G. Hernandez, ‎Werner Pfennig, Media and Politics in Asia, page 202:

     I think what we see here is a spiral of unconfidence because by listening to you, reporters and mass media people, I sense that you do not have a strong confidence about what you report and you don't have confidence to tell the government what to do .

   • 2005, Carl Bereiter, Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age, page 113:

     But feelings of confidence and unconfidence are essential guides to our cognitive efforts.

   • 2021, Tatiana Bachkirova, ‎Peter Jackson, ‎David Clutterbuck, Coaching and Mentoring Supervision, page 173:

     Focusing on his Readiness, I wonder aloud if his feelings of 'unconfidence' can become an ally in his coaching, allowing him to use his own feelings of 'unconfidence' in the next session as an indicator that he's doing real work with Jane and enabling her shift back in the workplace.

2. (statistics) The complement of confidence; the probability that something is not the case.
   • 1988, International Conference on Computer-Aided Production Engineering, page 556:

     Obviously If P ( H_i / E ) > P ( H_i) then we can say that by evidence E the confidence of H by the expert is increased and at the same time the unconfidence of H_i is decreased.