revealing

Noun
  1. The speech act of making something evident (synset 107228055)
    is a type of: speech act - the use of language to perform some act
    subtypes:
    • singing, tattle, telling - disclosing information or giving evidence about another
    • display - behavior that makes your feelings public
    • divulgement, divulgence - the act of disclosing something that was secret or private
    • discovery - something that is discovered
    • discovery - (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
    • giveaway - an unintentional disclosure
    • informing, ratting - to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)
    • leak, news leak - unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
    • exposure - the disclosure of something secret
    same as: disclosure, revelation
Adjective
  1. Disclosing unintentionally something concealed (synset 301308279)
    "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"
    similar to: informative, informatory - providing or conveying information
    same as: telling, telltale
  2. Showing or making known (synset 302098311)
    "a revealing glance"
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