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revelatory

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1. revelatory - Adjective

2. revelatory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom

(usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. J. K. Rowling

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. . . . Václav Havel

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. Alberto Manguel

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. Mary Daly

For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed. Nicholas Sparks

Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity. Paul Bloom

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