different between revealing vs reveling

English

Etymology

From Middle English reveling; equivalent to reveal +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???vi?l??/
• Rhymes: -i?l??
• Hyphenation: re?veal?ing

Adjective

revealing (comparative more revealing, superlative most revealing)

1. Informative.

   a revealing analysis

2. Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.

   Her shirt is rather revealing.

Translations

Verb

revealing

1. present participle of reveal

Noun

revealing (plural revealings)

1. Something revealed; a revelation.
   • 1836, William Tait, Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 3, page 113)

     In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind […]

Anagrams

• Graveline, laveering

English

Etymology

From Middle English revelyng; equivalent to revel +? -ing.

Verb

reveling

1. present participle of revel

Noun

reveling (plural revelings)

1. A revel.

Anagrams

• Levering, levering

Middle English

Etymology 1

From revelen (“to reveal”) +? -ing.

Alternative forms

• revelyng

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??v??lin?/

Noun

reveling (plural revelings) (rare)

1. A revelation from the heavens.

Descendants

• English: revealing

References

• “rev?ling, ger.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

Etymology 2

Noun

reveling

1. Alternative form of revelyng