declaration vs confession

confession vs declaration

declaration and confession both are nouns.

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

As nouns, confession is a hyponym of declaration; that is, confession is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than declaration:

declaration: a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)
confession: a public declaration of your faith

Other hyponyms of declaration include bastardization, manifesto, pronunciamento, dictum, pronouncement, say-so, assertion, asseveration, averment, protestation, postulation, predication, threat.

declaration (noun)	confession (noun)
a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)	(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote	an admission of misdeeds or faults
(law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction	a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
a formal public statement	a public declaration of your faith
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make	the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)
a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties

Difference between declaration and confession

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