realization
/,riəlai'zeiʃn/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The act of achieving or completing something: The process of making a plan, dream, or goal become a concrete reality.
- The act of becoming fully aware of a fact or truth: The moment or process of understanding something clearly.
- The act of converting an asset into cash: The sale of property or goods to obtain money.
Examples of Usage
- As an achievement or completion:
- The opening of the community center was the realization of a long-held dream.
- Winning the championship was the realization of all their hard work.
- As an understanding or awareness:
- A look of sudden realization crossed her face when she solved the puzzle.
- His journey led to the realization that true happiness comes from within.
- As a conversion to cash:
- The realization of the company's assets was necessary to pay its debts.
Advanced Usage
- "Come to the realization": To gradually or suddenly understand something.
- I slowly came to the realization that I was in the wrong career.
- "In realization of": As a result of achieving something.
- The ceremony was held in realization of the project's successful completion.
Variants and Related Words
- Realize (verb): To achieve something or to become fully aware of something.
- He finally realized his ambition to become a pilot.
- She realized she had left her keys at home.
- Realizable (adjective): Capable of being achieved or converted into cash.
- The plan is ambitious but realizable.
Synonyms
- Fulfillment: The achievement of something desired or promised.
- Awareness: Knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.
- Comprehension: The action or capability of understanding something.
- Actualization: The process of making something a reality.
Related Phrases
- Full realization: Complete understanding or achievement.
- The full realization of the danger only hit them later.
- Dawn of realization: The beginning of understanding (often sudden).
- The dawn of realization was visible in his eyes.
Noun
- something that is made real or concrete
- the victory was the realization of a whole year's work
- the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
- a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained
- a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
- making real or giving the appearance of reality
- coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
- a growing realization of the risk involved
- a sudden recognition of the problem he faced
- increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases