Confiders

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Those who share private or personal thoughts with someone else
2. Individuals who express their innermost feelings or secrets to trusted counterparts
3. People who rely on another for understanding and emotional support in a confidential manner

Etymology: "Confider" is built from the verb "confide," which comes from Latin "confidere," meaning "to trust completely." The prefix "com-" intensifies the sense, and the root "fidere" is also behind "faith," "fidelity," and "fiducial." To confide originally meant to rely fully on someone, and only later came to mean entrusting them with secrets, so the person who confides is one who places their trust in another. Its close relative "confidant," the trusted person who hears the secrets, reached English from French, which had borrowed it from Italian "confidente." English later added the feminine "confidante." "Confider" is the plainer English agent noun formed directly from "confide" with the suffix "-er," the same pattern as "reader" or "speaker."

Synonyms: trustees, entrusters