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Confidant vs Confidentiality - What's the difference?

confidant | confidentiality |

As nouns the difference between confidant and confidentiality

is that confidant is a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend while confidentiality is (uncountable) the property of being confidential.

confidant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend
    • You love me for no other end / Than to become my confidant and friend; / As such I keep no secret from your sight. — Dryden.

    See also

    * confidante ----

    confidentiality

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The property of being confidential.
  • (countable) Something told in confidence; a secret.