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Revealing vs Disclose - What's the difference?

revealing | disclose |

As verbs the difference between revealing and disclose

is that revealing is while disclose is (obsolete) to open up, unfasten.

As nouns the difference between revealing and disclose

is that revealing is something revealed; a revelation while disclose is (obsolete) a disclosure.

As an adjective revealing

is of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.

revealing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something revealed; a revelation.
  • * 1836 , William Tait, ?Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 3, page 113)
  • In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind

    disclose

    English

    Verb

    (disclos)
  • (obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
  • To uncover, physically expose to view.
  • * Woodward
  • The shells being broken, the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
  • * 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:
  • Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
  • To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .
  • * Addison
  • If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.

    Synonyms

    * divulge * impart * publish * reveal * unveil

    Antonyms

    * cover up

    Derived terms

    * discloser

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A disclosure