revelation

Main Entry:
revelation [rev-uh-ley-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disclosure, telling
Synonyms: adumbration, announcement, apocalypse, betrayal, blow by blow, break, broadcasting, clue, communication, cue, discovery, display, divination, divulgement, earful, epiphany, exhibition, expose, exposition, exposure, eye-opener, flash, foreshadowing, inspiration, leak, lightning bolt, manifestation, news, oracle, proclamation, prophecy, publication, scoop*, showing, sign, the latest, tip, uncovering, unearthing, unveiling, vision
Antonyms: secret
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Revelation.
Category: 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers
Synonyms:
-nouns
revelation, inspiration, afflatus; theophany, theopneusty., Word, Word of God; Scripture; the Scriptures, the Bible; Holy Writ, Holy Scriptures; inspired writings, Gospel., Old Testament, Septuagint, Vulgate, Pentateuch; Octateuch; the Law, the Jewish Law, the Prophets; major Propets, minor Prophets; Hagiographa, Hagiology; Hierographa; Apocrypha., New Testament; Gospels, Evangelists, Acts, Epistles, Apocalypse, Revelations., Talmud; Mishna, Masorah., prophet (seer); evangelist, apostle, disciple, saint; the Fathers, the Apostolical Fathers; Holy Men of old, inspired penmen.
-adjectives
scriptural, biblical, sacred, prophetic; evangelical, evangelistic; apostolic, apostolical; inspired, theopneustic, theophneusted, apocalyptic, ecclesiastical, cannonical, textuary.
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Main Entry: admission
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: confession or acknowledgment
Synonyms: accession, admittance, affidavit, affirmation, allowance, assent, assertion, attestation, averment, avowal, concession, confirmation, declaration, deposition, disclosure, divulgence, profession, revelation, statement, testimonial, testimony
Notes: admission implies a physical entrance, whereas admittance implies some sort of procedural or merely formal entry; admission correlates with permission to move into a room or building but admittance correlates with acceptance into a group or organization
admission falls short of an acknowledgment of all elements of a crime - which would be a confession
Antonyms: denial, disallowance, refusal, repudiation
Main Entry: announcement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: proclamation, declaration
Synonyms: advertisement, advice, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, bulletin, communication, communiqué, disclosure, dissemination, divulgence, edict, exposing, exposition, expression, intimation, message, narration, news, notice, notification, prediction, promulgation, publication, publishing, recitation, release, report, reporting, revelation, statement
Main Entry: betrayal
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: divulgence of information
Synonyms: blurting out, diming, disclosure, giving away, ratting, revelation, snitching, spilling, squealing, tattling, telling
Antonyms: quiet, secret
Main Entry: communication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: giving, exchanging information, ideas
Synonyms: advice, advisement, announcing, articulation, assertion, communion, connection, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence, corresponding, declaration, delivery, disclosing, dissemination, elucidation, expression, intelligence, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, link, making known, mention, notifying, publication, reading, reception, revelation, talk, talking, telling, transfer, translating, transmission, utterance, writing
Antonyms: concealment, cover, quiet, suppression, withholding
Main Entry: communication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: information transmitted
Synonyms: account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, communiqué, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, hot story, ideas, info, information, inside story, intelligence, language, lowdown, message, missive, news, note, pipeline, poop, prophecy, précis, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work
Main Entry: confession
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: admittance of information
Synonyms: acknowledgment, admission, affirmation, allowance, assenting, assertion, avowal, concession, declaration, disclosing, disclosure, divulgence, enumeration, exposure, exposé, making public, narration, owning up, proclamation, profession, publication, recitation, relation, revealing, revelation, song*, squawk, squeal, statement, story, telling, unbosoming, utterance
Notes: admission falls short of an acknowledgment of all elements of a crime - which would be a confession
Antonyms: concealment, cover, denial, disavowal, secret
Main Entry: declaration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: assertion of belief or knowledge
Synonyms: acknowledgment, admission, advertisement, affirmation, allegation, announcement, answer, attestation, averment, avowal, bomb*, broadcast, communication, deposition, disclosure, enunciation, explanation, exposition, expression, hot air, information, notice, notification, oath, pitch, presentation, profession, promulgation, protestation, publication, remark, report, revelation, say so, saying, spiel*, statement, story, testimony, two cents' worth, utterance
Antonyms: denial, disavowal, retraction
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