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overconfidence

[ oh-ver-kon-fi-duhns ]

noun

  1. the quality of having an unrealistically high opinion of one’s own judgment, ability, powers, etc.:

    Underestimating the enemy can induce laziness and encourage overconfidence.

    Psychologists have determined that overconfidence causes people to overestimate their ability to control events and underestimate risks.



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With Ramsey standing at just over 5 feet tall, Ellie uses her size as an asset — combining nimbleness and reckless overconfidence to subdue much larger foes, people and infected alike.

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The only blot was a touch of overconfidence for his dismissal, falling to Abhishek after striking back-to-back boundaries off the left-arm spinner.

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Now, from other people, you can take that as overconfidence.

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Each party floods into power in a state of simultaneous overconfidence in its policy mandate and panic that its hold on power will be short-lived.

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But they’ might have to battle overconfidence going up against what’s supposedly a far lesser team than the one they just beat.

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