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Confession vs Fetish - What's the difference?

confession | fetish |

As nouns the difference between confession and fetish

is that confession is the open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad) while fetish is something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.

confession

English

Noun

(wikipedia confession) (en noun)
  • The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).
    • Without the real murderer's confession , an innocent person will go to jail.
  • * Shakespeare
    • With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.
  • A formal document providing such an admission.
    • He forced me to sign a confession !
  • (Roman Catholicism) the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. Now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
    • I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
  • * (First Folio ed.)
    • Hauing di?plea?'d my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confe??ion , and to be ab?olu'd.
  • Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
  • * Bible, Rom. x. 10
    • With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.

    • Derived terms

    * confessional * nonconfession

    Related terms

    * confess

    fetish

    English

    (wikipedia fetish)

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (es)
  • Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
  • Something sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a part of the body, which arouses sexual desire or is necessary for one to reach full sexual satisfaction.
    • I know a guy who has a foot fetish .
  • (US) An irrational, or abnormal fixation or preoccupation.
  • * 1933': ''We have a feeling that it must be "honest" work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of '''fetish of manual work.'' -- George Orwell, ''Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. XXII, pg. 117 (Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition).

    • Related terms

    * fetishism * fetishist * fetishistic * fetishlike * fetishize * fetishwear