## Etymology
From revealing (present participle of reveal) + -ness. Reveal derives from Old French reveler, from Latin revelare ('to unveil'), from re- ('back, opposite') + velare ('to cover, veil'), from velum ('veil').

## AI Etymology
Revealingness comes from revealing (present participle of reveal) + -ness. Reveal derives from Old French reveler, from Latin revelare ('to unveil'), from re- ('back, opposite') + velare ('to cover, veil'), from velum ('veil'). The historical chain includes Latin revelare and Latin velum. The quoted older senses, "to unveil", "back, opposite", "to cover, veil", and "veil", supply the semantic anchors for revealingness. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, participial, and borrowed: the word revealingness carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "the quality of disclosing or making something evident". Related English forms include reveal, revealing, revelation, and veil. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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