different between disclosure vs hearsay

English

Etymology

From disclose by analogy with closure. A purely English formation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?kl????(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?klo???/

Noun

disclosure (countable and uncountable, plural disclosures)

1. The act of revealing something.
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume III, Chapter 13:

     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; […]

2. That which is disclosed; a previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.
3. (law) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.

   get full disclosure

Synonyms

• revelation

Antonyms

• closure

Derived terms

• nondisclosure

Related terms

• disclose

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English hyere-zigginge (1340), here sey (ca. 1438), from the phrase heren seien (“to hear [people] say”). Compare equally old Middle High German hœrsagen (14th c.), whence modern Hörensagen.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hear?say

Noun

hearsay (usually uncountable, plural hearsays)

1. Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.
2. (law) Evidence based on the reports of others, which is normally inadmissible because it was not made under oath, rather than on personal knowledge.
3. (law) An out-of-court statement offered in court for the truth of the matter asserted, which is normally inadmissible because it is not subject to cross-examination unless the hearsay statement falls under one of a number of exceptions.

Derived terms

• double hearsay

Synonyms

• common talk
• gossip
• report
• rumor

Translations

See also

• as they say
• hear
• hear tell
• so they say
• you know what they say

Further reading

• hearsay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hearsay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.