Definition for Confession:

• a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party

Synonyms for Confession:

• n.

  •
  • sacrament,
  • absolution,
  • contrition.
  •admittance of information (noun)
  • assenting,
  • publication,
  • acknowledgment,
  • affirmation,
  • revelation,
  • telling,
  • divulgence,
  • Unbosoming,
  • narration,
  • relation,
  • making public,
  • song,
  • squawk,
  • enumeration,
  • declaration,
  • recitation,
  • utterance,
  • proclamation,
  • allowance,
  • story,
  • assertion,
  • owning up,
  • disclosing.
  •confession (noun)
  • acknowledgement.
  •disclosure (noun)
  • broadcasting,
  • expression,
  • dissemination,
  • announcement,
  • testimony,
  • advertisement,
  • communication,
  • exhibition,
  • Divulging.
  •penitence (noun)
  • contriteness,
  • repentance,
  • regret,
  • attrition,
  • self-reproach,
  • atonement,
  • penitence,
  • remorse,
  • breast-beating.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • flagellation,
  • religion,
  • novitiate,
  • confessed,
  • thanksgiving,
  • devotional,
  • officiate,
  • avowal,
  • purify,
  • liturgical,
  • purification,
  • anoint.
  •
  • deify,
  • ordain,
  • feast,
  • consecrate,
  • prayer,
  • circumcision,
  • denounce,
  • invocation,
  • preach.
  •
  • squeal,
  • ministry,
  • sect.
  •
  • persuasion,
  • admission,
  • denomination.
  •
  • frame.
  •catholicism
  • conclave,
  • confessor,
  • papal,
  • excommunicate,
  • encyclical,
  • limbo,
  • roman,
  • interdict,
  • pontificate,
  • bull,
  • confess,
  • confessional,
  • indulgence.

Paraphrases for Confession:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    acknowledgement, acknowledgment, creed.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    testimony, plea, sect, persuasion, guilt, conviction, non-recognition.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    confessional, faith, affiliation, religion, declaration, revelation, deposition, statement, belief, evidence.

Antonyms for Confession:

• n.

  • admittance of information
    repudiation, secret, disavowal, silence, concealment, denial, cover, refusal.
  • Other antonyms:
    censure, condemnation, renouncement, injury, imputation, recantation, Nonadmission, offense, wrong, accusation, charge, complaint, insult.

Hypernym for Confession:

• n.

  • act
    shrift.
  • communication
    self-accusation, self-condemnation.

Hyponym for Confession:

• n.

  • act
    penance.
  • communication
    creed, papers, document, church doctrine, religious doctrine, admission, declaration, gospel, written document.