Disclosure

//dɪsˈkləʊʒə(ɹ)// noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of revealing something. countable, uncountable

    "Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; […]"

  2. 2
    the speech act of making something evident wordnet
  3. 3
    The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing. countable, uncountable

    "get full disclosure"

  4. 4
    That which is disclosed; a previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms
revelationrevelationadmissionaffidavitaffirmationallegation

Example

More examples

"The work of art that says something confronts us itself. That is, it expresses something in such a way that what is said is like a discovery, a disclosure of something previously concealed."

Etymology

From disclose by analogy with closure. A purely English formation.

Related phrases

full disclosureself-disclosure

More for "disclosure"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.