disclosing

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of disclose.

   The company is disclosing its financial losses to investors this week.

   Disclosing the source of the leak could put the journalist at risk.

   Note

   The -ing form does two jobs. It is progressive after be (the company is disclosing its losses), and it is a gerund at the head of a noun phrase (disclosing the source). Either way it stays a transitive verb and takes its object directly. That is the quick test against the noun for an act of revealing, which needs of: the disclosing of the debts.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   An act of revealing information that was previously secret or unknown.

   The disclosing of the company's debts came too late to reassure its shareholders.

   Any disclosing of classified material must follow strict legal procedures.

   Similarrevelation, release, publication, exposure

   Oppositeconcealment, suppression, withholding

   Note

   Unlike the gerund, this noun can be counted. It takes a plural, disclosings, so each act of revealing can be treated as a separate event. Arthur Melnick's Phenomenology and the Physical Reality of Consciousness (2011) uses the plural this way, placing an undulation "within the disclosings" themselves. Where disclosure often names what is revealed, this noun keeps attention on the act of revealing.

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