DIVULGENCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of disclosing something that was secret or private

Synonyms:

divulgement; divulgence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("divulgence" is a kind of...):

disclosure; revealing; revelation (the speech act of making something evident)

Derivation:

divulge (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)