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Pronunciation: [ɹˈɛvɪlətəɹˌi] (IPA)

The word "revelatory" is often used to describe something that unveils or discloses a previously unknown fact or truth. There are many synonyms for this word that can be used interchangeably to convey similar meanings. Some common synonyms for "revelatory" include enlightening, informative, insightful, revealing, and eye-opening. Other synonyms that can also be used include illuminating, instructive, telling, suggestive, and informative. All of these words suggest that something has been learned or exposed that was previously unknown or hidden. Whether it is a new perspective, a previously unconsidered piece of information, or a sudden realization, these synonyms for "revelatory" all point to a moment of discovery or illumination.

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What are the opposite words for revelatory?

The term "revelatory" is often used to describe an experience or moment that is enlightening or revealing. However, the opposite of revelatory can be unenlightening, uninstructive, or ignorant. Rather than sharing new insights, an unenlightening experience may leave one feeling confused or unfulfilled. Similarly, an uninstructive experience lacks the educational value and may not offer any new knowledge. Finally, an ignorant experience may leave one feeling uneducated or unaware of the real world. While revelatory experiences can be powerful and transformative, the absence of these experiences can also offer essential lessons for growth and understanding.

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Usage examples for Revelatory

The incident is curiously revelatory of the character of the man, for it must be admitted that while literary telegraphers are by no means scarce, there are very few who would spend scant savings on back numbers of a ponderous review at an age when tragedy, beer, and pretzels are far more enticing.
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
Among the contributors whom the new editor called to his aid was Robert Louis Stevenson, and among the contributions the latter made to the former's magazine was the highly characteristic and self-revelatory essay, entitled 'A Penny Plain and Two Pence Colored,' now included in the volume called 'Memories and Portraits.
"A Book About the Theater"
Brander Matthews
These throw a revelatory light upon some of the most painful problems of our time, as well as upon the secret places of the human soul where lurks an ever eager hope, often frustrated, and alas, often deceived.
"Modern Saints and Seers"
Jean Finot

Famous quotes with Revelatory

  • Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
    Mary Daly
  • There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
    Václav Havel
  • “One of the exciting things about today is [that] people are not, for the most part (...) even in their spiritual domain, they're not satisfied necessarily with just an internal revelatory spiritual experience anymore. Most people that I meet are hooked up in such a way that it only is really deeply meaningful to them unless it actually starts to transform how they move and experience... their contribution to life.”
    Adyashanti
  • Enlightenment … asks, innocently and subversively, for proofs, sources, and evidence. At the beginning it solemnly avers that it would willingly believe everything, if only it could find someone to convince it. Here it becomes clear that the biblical texts, taken philologically, remain themselves their only witness. Their revelatory character is their own claim, and it can be believed or not; the church, which elevates this revelatory character to the status of a grand dogma, itself plays only the role of an interpreter. With his radical biblicism, Luther rejected the church’s claim to authority. This repudiation then repeats itself on the higher level through biblicism itself. For text remains text, and every assertion that it is divinely inspired can, in turn, be only a human, fallible assertion. With every attempt to grasp the absolute source, critique comes up against relative, historical sources that only ever assert the Absolute. The miracles spoken about in the Bible to legitimate God’s power are only reports of miracles for which there are no longer any means of verification. The revelatory claim is stuck in a philological circle.
    Peter Sloterdijk
  • He had come there dissatisfied with his work, even though his multi-kinetic work was admired and winning him professional recognition. However, at that moment, other ideas were gestating and he wanted to add what he called a "fifth dimension" to his art - that of artificial intelligence. [...] : [At the colony,] he was able to turn his thoughts inward, hoping to discover the new methods and direction that would more deeply satisfy his creative needs. It was at this point, while watching the motions and patterns of sun on leaves in the New Hampshire woods one morning, that Tsai finally achieved the revelatory breakthrough that changed his art and liberated his creative energies. As he put it, he wanted to create "natural movements in dynamic equilibrium, with intelligence," and he found his solution in an unlikely combination of natural phenomenon, the precedent of Gabo's singular (and unrepeated) kinetic sculpture, and the new resource of contemporary analog and digital technology.
    Sam Hunter

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