self-revelations

noun

plural of self-revelation
1
as in confessions

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as in self-realizations

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-revelations
  1. confessions
  2. self-discoveries
  3. declarations
  4. self-perceptions
  5. acknowledgments
  6. self-images
  7. affirmations
  8. meditations
Noun
  • This week's quiz spotlights bikini getaways and country music confessions.
    — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Jawad Boulos, who was Sarsour's lawyer when he was charged in Israel decades ago, testified that Sarsour was tortured in Israeli custody and coerced into making confessions.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of confessions
Noun
  • Their friends support them through the challenges of young love, and many make their own self-discoveries about gender and sexuality along the way.
    — Carrie Grant, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
Definition of self-discoveries
Noun
  • Hamilton will take over in the middle of a busy summer disaster season that has already brought destructive wildfires and dangerous flooding and as FEMA manages more than 1,000 open disaster declarations.
    — Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Between January 2017 and August 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed 109 eminent domain declarations in its quest to acquire land to construct border barriers, according to a 2020 GAO report.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of declarations
Noun
  • Identity shifts are common as work defines many, requiring time to build new self-perceptions.
    — Andrew Rosen, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of self-perceptions
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  • He’s quoted in the book extensively, but according to the acknowledgements did not consent to an interview.
    — Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • In her acknowledgments, Jacobsen pauses to remind her readers that her tale’s painstaking realism is just a literary device.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Definition of acknowledgments
Noun
  • Most have found their way, educated themselves, and shaken off horrible memories, negative self-images, and bad relationships that happened for the wrong reasons.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
Definition of self-images
Noun
  • Eating disorders, as those in recovery have stressed, thrive on the pathological evidence of their symptoms, spinning negative attention—concern, disgust—into fatal affirmations.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Critically, in the third experiment, their affirmations came before the failure and still worked to defeat rumination.
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of affirmations
Noun
  • Encounters with shifting coastlines, towering redwoods, and mycelial networks spark meditations on inheritance, resilience, and the work of remaking a life.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • And the urgency of Judar’s meditations on authoritarianism, impunity, social repression, and avenues for liberation in the United States in 2026 is so clear as to be self-evident.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
Definition of meditations
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“Self-revelations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-revelations. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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