revealing

Etymology

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

adj

1. Informative.
   Lest anyone on the left think that Tucker [Carlson] and his friends are potential anti-capitalist allies, their specific objections to corporate capitalism are revealing. To them, the real issue is not labor exploitation, but rather the “corporate alliance with the progressive left.” 2019-7-24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents
   a revealing analysis
2. Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.
   Her shirt is rather revealing.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of reveal

noun

1. Something revealed; a revelation.
   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[…] 1836, William Tait, Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 113