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I just found a sentence in which 「露見」 is used:

> そして、行動するからには、誰にもそれが露見しないようにやらなければならない

which I think it's pretty straightforward, meaning something like "Then, when
you decide to act, you must do it being sure to not be found out".

This got me wondering about how 「露見」 is different from 「発覚」, which I knew
before finding out the first: Jisho defines them as [discovery (of a plot,
misdeed, etc.); detection;
exposure](https://jisho.org/search/%E9%9C%B2%E8%A6%8B) and [detection (of a
plot, fraud, etc.); discovery; coming to
light](https://jisho.org/search/%E7%99%BA%E8%A6%9A), which seems very similar,
and Weblio too gives definitions which sounds very similar to me:
[悪事や秘密などがばれること](https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E9%9C%B2%E8%A6%8B) and
[隠していた罪・たくらみなどが人に知られること](https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E7%99%BA%E8%A6%9A).

I wasn't able to find anything conclusive, and the only thing I can think of,
but I'm far from sure, is that 「露見」 means (can mean?) something involving a
third part, like A found out something about B and reveals it to someone (as
per "exposure" meaning on Jisho); while 「発覚」 doesn't have this implication,
like A found something about B (and maybe they keep it for themselves) or that
something comes to light somehow, not necessarily by exposure (as per "coming
to light" meaning on Jisho).

Am I close? Do these two words differs significantly?
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Differences between 「発覚」 and 「露見」
They both describe the same event "something concealed is revealed" and are
mostly interchangeable for **human activities**. The only difference is that
発覚 stands in the outsider's perspective, while 露見 the insider's--that of who
wanted to conceal it. However, it does not mean that you cannot use 露見 unless
you are the hider themselves. The speaker can freely use it whenever they
suppose that the fact is inconvenient for the hider, which is in practice
mostly true. Therefore, they wouldn't make much difference except for the
possibility to break the natural flow of sentences in limited occasions.

When they make real difference is, for example, the case below:

> 重大なバグが発覚した _a critical bug is detected_ (by developers/users)  
>  重大なバグが露見した _a critical bug is exposed/leaked_ (to users)

A software bug is often "hidden" in a program, but no one intends it (by
definition). In other words, when you are a software developer, you cannot
postulate anybody behind it being unfound. Thus we can only say the former.
~~The other one might have some usage when, say, a company hides a known bug
for their benefit, but then you should say correctly against "concealing the
bug" バグ隠し rather than the bug itself~~.

**Edit** : @goldbrick let me know that バグが露見 does return a lot of search
results on Google. They mostly consist of situations that the service provider
is motivated not to want people to know their product has a bug, such as: it
involves security concerns, or easily exploitable in the MMO game, etc. They
seem to be valid examples.
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