informing
Passing on facts
Informing is the act of giving someone information or knowledge: Thanks for informing me of the change.
It also means serving as an animating principle or influence: the values informing her work.
A darker sense is reporting someone to authorities, especially secretly: He was informing on his neighbors to the police.
An informant informs in this last sense.
Reporting others' wrongdoing
- snitchingInforming on someone
- rattingInforming against associates
- squealingMaking shrill cries
- denouncingPublicly declaring disapproval
exposing · reporting · betraying · testifying · fingering · grassing · narking · whistleblowing
Public declaration of information
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- notificationFormal notice given
- disclosureAct of revealing information
- reportingConveying documented information
bulletin · update · advisory · communique · briefing · dispatch · memo · notice
Conveying how to proceed
- teachingProfession of instructing others
- enlighteningProviding new understanding
- explainingMaking something understood
- clarifyingMaking something understandable
illuminating · edifying · tutoring · coaching · guiding · training · schooling · lecturing
State of sentient awareness
- cognizanceState of knowing something
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- realizationGrasping what's true
- understandingMental comprehension of something
insight · mindfulness · alertness · attentiveness · recognition · discernment · awakening · comprehension
Altering someone's thinking
- guidingLeading toward destination
- underlyingExisting beneath the surface
- groundingConnecting to earth
- pervadingSpreading throughout entirely
suffusing · animating · directing · steering · molding · framing · structuring · underpinning
tattling
Reporting others' wrongdoing
denouncing · exposing · reporting · betraying · testifying · fingering · grassing · narking · whistleblowing · incriminating
announcement
Public declaration of information
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- notificationFormal notice given
- disclosureAct of revealing information
reporting · bulletin · update · advisory · communique · briefing · dispatch · memo · notice · warning
instructing
Conveying how to proceed
- teachingProfession of instructing others
- enlighteningProviding new understanding
- explainingMaking something understood
clarifying · illuminating · edifying · tutoring · coaching · guiding · training · schooling · lecturing · demonstrating
consciousness
State of sentient awareness
- cognizanceState of knowing something
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- realizationGrasping what's true
understanding · insight · mindfulness · alertness · attentiveness · recognition · discernment · awakening · comprehension · grasp
influencing
Altering someone's thinking
- guidingLeading toward destination
- underlyingExisting beneath the surface
- groundingConnecting to earth
pervading · suffusing · animating · directing · steering · molding · framing · structuring · underpinning · coloring
- spreading ideasspreading, teaching, sharing, promoting, broadcasting
- communicatingtalking, speaking, telling, sharing, expressing
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- teachingteaching, lesson plans, instructing, educating, courses
- disclosurerevealing, disclosing, disclosure, disclose, divulge
- information sharingnews, broadcast, announcement, sharing, spreading
informingwithholding
Keeping from another
concealing · hiding · suppressing · censoring · obscuring
informingmisinforming
Conveying inaccurate facts
misleading · deceiving · disinforming · confusing · obfuscating
informingprotecting
Keeping from harm
shielding · covering for · keeping quiet · keeping mum · standing by
inform, information, informed, uninformed, informative, informer, informs, misinform, disinform