Revealing vs Uncovering - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between revealing and uncovering

is that revealing is while uncovering is .

As nouns the difference between revealing and uncovering

is that revealing is something revealed; a revelation while uncovering is the act by which something is uncovered.

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

uncovering

English

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

The act by which something is uncovered.

* 1969 , William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Dark Water: Voices from Within the Veil

In partial compensation for this narrowed destiny the white world has lavished its politeness on its womankind,—its chivalry and bows, its uncoverings and courtesies—all the accumulated homage disused for courts and kings

* 2000 , Paul Gorner, Twentieth Century German Philosophy (page 158)

Although clearly we play a part in particular uncoverings of entities, the discovery of particular truths, we have no control over basic modes of revealing and revealedness, concealing and concealedness.