revelation

noun

• 1a surprising and previously unknown fact that has been disclosed to others:revelations about his personal life
• [mass noun] the making known of something that was previously secret or unknown:the revelation of a plot to assassinate the king
• used to emphasize the remarkable quality of someone or something:seeing them play at international level was a revelation

• 2 [mass noun] the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence:an attempt to reconcile Darwinian theories with biblical revelation [count noun]:a divine revelation
• (Revelation or Revelations; in full the Revelation of St John the Divine) the last book of the New Testament, recounting a divine revelation of the future to St John.