0 the quality of being too certain of your abilities or of your chances of success:
He cautioned against overconfidence.
Good preparation can sometimes lead to overconfidence.
Let's not lose because of overconfidence.
The danger for the campaign is they fall back into complacency and overconfidence.
But while sales and orders continue to increase, the partners behind the report warn against overconfidence.
There will always be the hazard of human error, but most accidents result from misplaced overconfidence, or ignorance of, or contempt for, the safety regulations.
It would be foolish to speak in terms of overconfidence about our ability to recruit the numbers we need.
I do not ask for multiple overconfidence; we had warnings given about that.
Far more important is the overconfidence induced by belts.