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discovery

/dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/noun4 syllables

Discovery means: the act of discovering something.

Synonyms for discovery3

noun, as in the act of discovering something

find, uncovering

noun, as in a productive insight

breakthrough, find

What does discovery mean?4

noun

1

the act of discovering something

2

a productive insight

3

something that is discovered

4

(law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Discovery in a sentence

  • For those lucky enough to get tickets, it’s a discovery.Hybrid
  • Self-discovery is a journey, not a destination.Nuel
  • As scientists keep insisting, there is neither good nor bad in any scientific discovery.Dejo
  • This is not a discovery, everybody knows it!unknown
  • That is not a discovery, everybody knows it!unknown
  • I am completing this list day after day, following my discoveries.samir_t
  • Thanks to these discoveries, man's life span has become twice as long as before.unknown
  • Serendipity is the ability to make, accidentally, happy and unexpected discoveries.DJ_Saidez

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of discovery

as a noun

plural
discoveries