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1. The speech act of making something evident
   - disclosure, revealing
    
2. An enlightening or astonishing disclosure
    
3. Communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency
   - divine revelation

1. The last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle
   - Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Apocalypse, Book of Revelation

Derived forms: revelations, Revelations

See also: reveal

Type of: book, brainstorm, brainwave, informing, insight, making known, speech act

Part of: New Testament

Encyclopedia: Revelation Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth