English > disclosure: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | The speech act of making something evident / evident. |
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| Synonyms | revelation, revealing |
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| Narrower | discovery | Something that is discovered |
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| discovery | (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case |
| display | behavior that makes your feelings public |
| divulgence, divulgement | The act of disclosing something that was secret or private |
| exposure | The disclosure of something secret |
| 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 |
| tattle, singing, telling | disclosing information or giving evidence about another |
| Broader | speech act | The use of language to perform some act |
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| Spanish | descubrimiento, destape, divulgación, revelación |
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| Catalan | divulgació, revelació |
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| Verbs | disclose | make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret |
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