Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

revealment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-veal-ment
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of revealing something; revelation.

Example Sentences

"I know Marianne's heart: I know that she dearly loves me, and that I shall not be the last to whom the affair is made known, when circumstances make the revealment of it eligible."
"Alas! how much guile did that seeming desperation hide, which, as the result has now shown, though it may have come from the heart, never afterward returned to the same, and made manifest later that its revealment on the face was only a lure and a delusion!"
"1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]"
"And it's the teasing game of psychological revealment and concealment that makes Dorian Gray such a gripping tale more than a century after its publication."

Etymology

From reveal + -ment.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: reveal

Inflected Forms

revealments (plural)

Questions

What does revealment mean?: The act of revealing something; revelation.
Where does revealment come from?: From reveal + -ment.

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