self-revelation

noun

Revelation of one's own thoughts, feelings, and attitudes, especially when not deliberately sought.

Meanings

nounself-revelation (plural self-revelations)

plural self-revelations

  1. Revelation of one's own thoughts, feelings, and attitudes, especially when not deliberately sought.

    Amid these self-revelations, though, a couple of the stories here seem strangely out of place.

    2006 August 18, Patricia Cohen, “Dorothy Gallagher’s Clear-Eyed Self-Revelations”, in The New York Times
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    That is something that I think of over and over again, a kind of mantra about why self-revelation is actually a political gesture.

    2019 June 30, John Williams, “‘I Was Done With All the Silences’: How an Academic Got Personal in ‘Notes to Self’”, in The New York Times

Origin

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self-revelation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-revelation

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Chicago

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