disclosure
nounUK /dɪsˈkləʊʒə(ɹ)/ · CA, US /dɪsˈkloʊʒɚ/
Etymology From disclose by analogy with closure. A purely English formation.
1
The act of revealing something.
- Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; […]1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 13, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
2
Law The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.
- get full disclosure
3
That which is disclosed; a previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.
- Synonyms
- revelation
- Antonyms
- closure
- Derived terms
- disclosure triangle, disclosure widget, full disclosure, nondisclosure, overdisclosure, predisclosure, redisclosure, self-disclosure, serodisclosure
- Related terms
- disclose