confession vs document

document vs confession

confession and document both are nouns.

confession is not a verb while document is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confession	Yes	No	No	No
document	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, document is a hypernym of confession; that is, document is a word with a broader meaning than confession:

confession: a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
document: writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

Other hypernyms of confession include papers, written document.

confession (noun)	document (noun)
(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution	anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
an admission of misdeeds or faults	writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party	(computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
a public declaration of your faith	a written account of ownership or obligation
the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)

confession (verb)	document (verb)
	support or supply with references
	record in detail

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