Noun

• S: (n) assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness (freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities) "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority"
• attribute
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) certainty (the state of being certain) "his certainty reassured the others"
• S: (n) cognitive state, state of mind (the state of a person's cognitive processes)
• S: (n) psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic) "a manic state"
• S: (n) condition, status (a state at a particular time) "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
• S: (n) state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
• S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) sureness (the quality of being steady and unfailing) "sureness of hand"