self-revelation

[ self-rev-uh-ley-shuhn, self- ]

noun

1. disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-revelation¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

In that poignant moment of self-revelation Tom's cumbersome machinery of intuition did not fail him.

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Each was undergoing a self-revelation; each was trying to face a future without the other.

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It was in these moods of adulation and self-revelation that Marishka found him most difficult.

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For a moment, in a storm of gratitude and emotion, his mind trembled on the verge of self-revelation.

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And even as his eyes loved the work of his hands, so he knew in a burning flash of self-revelation that his soul loved her.

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