confidence vs skepticism

confidence

noun
  • A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith. 

  • Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret. 

  • Self-assurance. 

skepticism

noun
  • Doubt or disbelief of religious doctrines 

  • The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic. 

  • The doctrine that absolute knowledge is not possible 

  • A studied attitude of questioning and doubt 

  • A methodology that starts from a neutral standpoint and aims to acquire certainty though scientific or logical observation. 

How often have the words confidence and skepticism occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )