REVEALING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revealing mean? 

• REVEALING (noun)
  The noun REVEALING has 1 sense:

1. the speech act of making something evident

  Familiarity information: REVEALING used as a noun is very rare.

• REVEALING (adjective)
  The adjective REVEALING has 2 senses:

1. disclosing unintentionally something concealed

2. showing or making known

  Familiarity information: REVEALING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVEALING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The speech act of making something evident

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

disclosure; revealing; revelation

Hypernyms ("revealing" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "revealing"):

singing; tattle; telling (disclosing information or giving evidence about another)

display (behavior that makes your feelings public)

divulgement; divulgence (the act of disclosing something that was secret or private)

discovery (something that is discovered)

discovery ((law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case)

giveaway (an unintentional disclosure)

informing; ratting (to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors))

leak; news leak (unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information)

exposure (the disclosure of something secret)

Derivation:

reveal (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

• REVEALING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disclosing unintentionally something concealed

Synonyms:

revealing; telling; telltale

Context example:

a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down

Similar:

informative; informatory (providing or conveying information)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Showing or making known

Context example:

a revealing glance

Similar:

indicative; indicatory; revelatory; significative; suggestive ((usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly)

scanty; skimpy ((of clothing) revealing the body)

Antonym:

concealing (covering or hiding)

 Context examples 

Although genetic differences between populations reflect their diversity, many patterns are shared across continents, revealing both ancient and recent connections between populations.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

It was initially thought to be an asteroid, but follow-up observations, showed a faint tail, revealing that the discovery was, in fact, a comet.

(A 'Tail' of Two Comets, NASA)

My friend’s plans were gradually revealing themselves.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This very unusual star is called U Antliae and new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are revealing a remarkably thin spherical shell around it.

(Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble, ESO)

How could I tell all this without revealing the family scandal which he was so anxious to conceal?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These first infrared views of Jupiter's north and south poles are revealing warm and hot spots that have never been seen before.

(Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System, NASA)

They have also made the first map of the velocities of material in the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun, revealing unexpected turbulence in Antares’s huge extended atmosphere.

(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)

Infrared light has been assigned colors we see with our eyes, revealing young stars in orange and yellow, and a central parcel of gas in blue.

(The 'Serpent' star-forming cloud hatches new stars, NASA)

As more stars and galaxies formed, their energy eventually ionized the hydrogen between the galaxies, revealing the universe as we see it today.

(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)

Observations of Ceres have detected recent variations in its surface, revealing that the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system is a dynamic body that continues to evolve and change.

(NASA Dawn Reveals Recent Changes in Ceres' Surface, NASA)