self-revealing

[ self-ri-vee-ling, self- ]

adjective

1. displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.:

   an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-revealing¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Promptly he repented, ashamed both of his anger and such self-revealing expression of it.

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“Glory” is the splendour and light of the self-revealing God.

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This is the most soberly, self-revealing letter written by Eugene Field that has come within my ken.

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In the strengthening and self-revealing solitude of her garden, this glowing summer day, Esmé sat trying to make up her mind.

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So just in so far as the sensory individual is less active, to that degree he is less expressive, less self-revealing.

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