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Revealing vs Revealment - What's the difference?

revealing | revealment |

As nouns the difference between revealing and revealment

is that revealing is something revealed; a revelation while revealment is the act of revealing something; revelation.

As an adjective revealing

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

As a verb revealing

is present participle of lang=en.

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

    revealment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of revealing something; revelation.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1811, author=Jane Austen, title=Sense and Sensibility, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I know Marianne's heart: I know that she dearly loves me, and that I shall not be the last to whom the affair is made known, when circumstances make the revealment of it eligible. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=James C. Brogan, title=La Fiammetta, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Alas! how much guile did that seeming desperation hide, which, as the result has now shown, though it may have come from the heart, never afterward returned to the same, and made manifest later that its revealment on the face was only a lure and a delusion! }}
  • * (Samuel Clemens)
    • Autobiography
  • * {{quote-news, year=1997, date=April 11, author=Albert Williams, title=One-Dimentional Portrait, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=And it's the teasing game of psychological revealment and concealment that makes Dorian Gray such a gripping tale more than a century after its publication. }}