revelation
noun
[ rɛvəˈleɪʃ(ə)n ]
• a surprising and previously unknown fact that has been disclosed to others.
• "revelations about his personal life"
Similar:
disclosure,
surprising fact,
divulgence,
declaration,
utterance,
announcement,
report,
news,
leak,
avowal,
acknowledgement,
admission,
confession,
• the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence.
• "an attempt to reconcile Darwinian theories with biblical revelation"
Origin:
Middle English (in the theological sense): from Old French, or from late Latin revelatio(n- ), from revelare ‘lay bare’ (see reveal1). Sense 1 dates from the mid 19th century.
