# confessional
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kənˈfɛʃənəl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

From confession +‎ -al.

#### Adjective

confessional (comparative more confessional, superlative most confessional)
* In the manner or style of a confession.
** 1991, Manju Jain, A critical reading of the selected poems of T.S. Eliot, page 77:The studied reticence of the poems in quatrains is opposed to the more confessional aspects of the monologue.
* Officially practicing a particular shared religion, as a state or organization; see confessionalism 1.
    confessional community

##### Derived terms

* anticonfessional
* confessional chair
* confessional debugging
* confessionalise
* confessionalist
* confessionality
* confessionalize
* confessionally
* ethnoconfessional
* multiconfessional
* nonconfessional
* semiconfessional

##### Related terms

* interconfessional

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From French confessionnal.

#### Noun

confessional (plural confessionals)
* (Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
    Synonym: confession booth
** c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter XI:The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.
** 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 13, in Crime out of Mind‎:In one of the aisles there was an elaborately carved confessional box and I recognised the village priest in his heavy mountain boots and black cassock as he entered it and drew the dark velvet curtains behind him.
* A confession.
** 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times‎:When a 35-year-old Bill Clinton, famously the nation’s youngest former governor, set out in 1982 to reclaim the job he had lost two years earlier, he began with a remarkable televised confessional. “My daddy never had to whip me twice for the same thing,” Mr. Clinton told Arkansans in a campaign commercial, acknowledging voters’ anger over his having raised a hated vehicle fee and vowing to listen better if they gave him another chance as governor.
* (reality television) A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.
** 2004, Ms. Magazine‎, volume 14:These characters behave as crassly as they do in large part because producers of shows such as The Bachelor deprive them of all contact with the outside world ( […] ) and ply them with alcohol, then goad them to unleash their petty grievances in filmed "confessionals".
** 2021, Doreen St. Félix, “"The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" Is Culturally Sensitive Trash”, in The New Yorker‎:We see Brooks seethe in a corner, and, in a cut to a confessional, he exaggerates the scene, saying, “I’m feeling really uncomfortable. Her vagina’s in my face.”

##### Translations
## Catalan
### Etymology

From confessió +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kuɱ.fə.si.uˈnal]
* IPA: (Balearic) [koɱ.fə.si.oˈnal]
* IPA: (Valencia) [koɱ.fe.si.oˈnal]

### Adjective

confessional m or f (masculine and feminine plural confessionals)
* confessional
* confessionary

#### Related terms

* confessar

### Further reading

* “confessional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.