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Disclosure vs Gossip - What's the difference?

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Disclosure is a related term of gossip.


As nouns the difference between disclosure and gossip

is that disclosure is the act of something while gossip is someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.

As a verb gossip is

to talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.

disclosure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of something.
  • (legal) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.
  • get full disclosure
  • (legal) A previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.
  • Synonyms

    * revelation

    Antonyms

    * closure

    Derived terms

    * nondisclosure

    gossip

    English

    (wikipedia gossip)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
  • Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
  • *
  • *:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
  • A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
  • *
  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracydistilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
  • (lb) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
  • *(John Selden) (1584-1654)
  • *:Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip , in her place send her kitchen maid, 'twould be ill taken.
  • Synonyms

    * scuttle-butt * See also

    Verb

  • To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
  • To talk idly.
  • Synonyms

    * (sense, talk about someone else's private or personal business) blab, talk out of turn, tell tales out of school

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