confessionaladj詞源 1/kənˈfɛʃənəl/

• 1

  In the manner or style of a confession.

  • The studied reticence of the poems in quatrains is opposed to the more confessional aspects of the monologue.
• 2

  Officially practicing a particular shared religion, as a state or organization; see confessionalism (sense 1).

  • confessional community

confessionalnoun詞源 2/kənˈfɛʃənəl/

• 1

  CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.

  • The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.
  • 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.
• 2

  A confession.

  • 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.
• 3

  A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.

  • 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".
  • 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.”