disclosure

/dəˈskloʊʒər/

/dɪsˈklʌʊʒə/

Other forms: disclosures

If you make a disclosure, you reveal information not previously known — either because it's new information or because it's been kept secret. Disclosure of new evidence at a trial could reveal that the accused is innocent of the crime.

The noun disclosure derives from the Old French word desclos, meaning "open, exposed, plain, explicit." If you make a disclosure, you put something out in the open, usually information that was formally secret. After the disclosure of your huge credit card debt, your parents might make you get a job. The disclosure that nicotine is really addictive has motivated many people to quit smoking. The disclosure of one coworker's salary to another could lead to bitter jealousy.

Definitions of disclosure

1. noun

   the act of making something evident
   synonyms: revealing, revelation

   types:

   singing, tattle, telling

   disclosing information or giving evidence about another

   display

   behavior that makes your feelings public

   divulgement, divulgence

   the act of disclosing something that was secret or private

   discovery

   something that is discovered

   discovery

   (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case

   giveaway

   an unintentional disclosure

   informing, ratting

   to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)

   leak, news leak

   unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information

   exposure

   the disclosure of something secret

   histrionics

   a deliberate display of emotion for effect

   production

   a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated

   sackcloth and ashes

   a display of extreme remorse or repentance or grief

   expose, unmasking

   the exposure of an impostor or a fraud

   muckraking

   the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures)

   type of:

   speech act

   the use of language to perform some act