self-revelation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of self-revelation
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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For a memoirist, Mr. Lemann remains ambivalent about self-revelation, eliding his professional accomplishments and any emotional upheavals along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
It’s kind of like you just have an ideal scenario for self-revelation as it relates to societal injustice or something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
And despite a promise of self-revelation, the author still remains, well, anonymous.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2019
In “War Machine,” the absolute absence of intimacy, of psychology, of characters’ self-revelation in thought and desire, is a failure of form and style as much as of content.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2017
My mother can easily speak to a priest in a darkened confessional; can easily make an act of self-revelation using the impersonal formula of ritual contrition: ‘Bless me, Father, for I have sinned....’
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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