Difference between Telling and Revealing

What is the difference between Telling and Revealing?

Telling as an adjective is having force while Revealing as an adjective is of clothing: allowing to see more than is usual.

Telling

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having force revealing information serving to convince

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of narration. The disclosure of information. Counting, numbering.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.

Example sentence: When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

Revealing

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of clothing: allowing to see more than is usual.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.

Example sentence: We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

We hope you now know whether to use Telling or Revealing in your sentence.

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