revelatory

UK[ɹɛvəˈlɛjtəɹi]US[ˈɹɛvələtoɹi]

adjectiveC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Revelatory means showing something that had not been understood before. A revelatory book.

It is stronger than informative, since it changes how everything else looks. A revelatory experience is often about something the person already knew and had not seen.

Definitions of revelatory

1adjectiverevelatoryShowing something that had not been understood before.C2
“The last chapter was revelatory and the rest was ordinary.”

revelatory is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin revelatorius, from revelare, to unveil, from velum, a veil.

Latin
revēlātōrius
English, today
revelatory

Latin revēlātōrius. by surface analysis, revelat(e) + revelate + ory.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

revelatory in the wild

In popular use apocalypse often means such a catastrophic end-times event, but in scholarly use the term is restricted to the visionary or revelatory event.
Apocalypse
Apocalypse is a genre of revelatory literature, or, by metonymy, a large-scale catastrophic event.
Apocalypse (disambiguation)
While empirical testability is essential for empirical sciences, other forms of knowledge may be assessed through appropriate rational, philosophical, or revelatory methods.
Testability
Hekhalot literature is a genre of Jewish esoteric and revelatory texts produced sometime between late antiquity (some believe from Talmudic times or earlier) to the Early Middle Ages.
Hekhalot literature
In Sufism, an even further revelatory capacity exists by which the Divine mysteries become readily apparent to the seeker through the light of knowledge of God.
Kashf

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