Discovery and Hiding

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Discovery noun - The act or process of sighting or learning the existence of something for the first time.

Usage example: the discovery of a new species of starfish

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Hiding is an antonym for discovery.

Hiding noun - The placing of something out of sight.

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Discovery is an antonym for hiding.

Nearby Words: hide, hid, hided

human	human discovery	human hiding
similar	similar discovery	similar hiding
original	original discovery	original hiding
fake	fake discovery	fake hiding
Other adjectives: brilliant, actual, constant, young, important, extraordinary, possible, sudden.

Triumphant with his discovery that there are Jews hiding under La Padite's floorboards, Landa mistakenly utters a dangling participle and chooses to commit suicide out of shame.

Source: Hoist By His Own Petard / Web Original
Diamond Dogs is novella by Alastair Reynolds, set in his Revelation Space universe.In a universe where all the aliens seem to be dead or hiding, a potentially huge discovery is made: an ancient alien tower is found on a lifeless planet.

Source: Literature / Diamond Dogs
For example, where Superman sees the discovery of Kara as a love story (finding a long lost family member) Batman believes finding another Kryptonian is a detective story (is she really the noble person she is claiming to be, or is she hiding something?).

Source: The Rival / Comic Books

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