self-revelation

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ revelation.

Noun

self-revelation (plural self-revelations)

1. Revelation of one's own thoughts, feelings, and attitudes, especially when not deliberately sought.
   • 2006 August 18, Patricia Cohen, “Dorothy Gallagher’s Clear-Eyed Self-Revelations”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Amid these self-revelations, though, a couple of the stories here seem strangely out of place.

   • 2019 June 30, John Williams, “‘I Was Done With All the Silences’: How an Academic Got Personal in ‘Notes to Self’”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     That is something that I think of over and over again, a kind of mantra about why self-revelation is actually a political gesture.