Exposure vs Gossip - What's the difference?
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(senseid)(uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable, uncountable) That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.
(uncountable) Lack of protection from weather or the elements.
* 1993 , (Paul Chadwick), The Ugly Boy , Dark Horse Books
(senseid)(photography) An instance of taking a photograph.
(photography) The piece of film exposed to light.
(photography) Details of the time and f-number used.
(gardening) The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.
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.
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*:"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.
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*: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.
To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
To talk idly.
Exposure is a related term of gossip.
As nouns the difference between exposure and gossip
is that exposure is (senseid)(uncountable) the condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected 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.exposure
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(wikipedia exposure)Noun
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- As all of you know, a great tragedy occurred yesterday. Arthur Harcourt died of exposure sometimes in the morning in the woods off Mount Tom Road.