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Confidential vs Confiding - What's the difference?

confidential | confiding |

As adjectives the difference between confidential and confiding

is that confidential is (meant to be) kept secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly while confiding is in confidence; as if with trust.

As a verb confiding is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun confiding is

the telling of something in confidence.

confidential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (meant to be) kept secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly
    • The newspaper claims a leaked confidential report by the government admits to problems with corrupt MPs.
  • (dated) Inclined to share confidences.
    • Sitting in front of the fire, they became quite confidential , and began to gossip.

    Synonyms

    * dern

    Derived terms

    * confide

    confiding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In confidence; as if with trust.

    • Derived terms

    * confidingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The telling of something in confidence.
  • * 1841 , Absalom Peters, ?Selah B. Treat, The American Eclectic (volume 1, page 141)
    • We see Washington by the fireside, upon the farm, amid the interchanges of friendship and ordinary confidings , and as a citizen, as well as in the sphere of military contest, in the senate, or as a diplomatist