realization

[ ree-uh-luh-zey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the making or being made real of something imagined, planned, etc.
2. the result of such a process:

   The new church was the realization of a ten-year dream.

3. the act of realizing or the state of being realized.
4. an instance or result of realizing.
5. Music.
   1. the act of realizing a figured bass.
   2. a printed score of a realized figured bass.

Other Words From

• nonre·al·i·zation noun
• prere·al·i·zation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of realization¹

First recorded in 1605–15; from French réalisation; equivalent to realize + -ation

Example Sentences

Sadly, the world will never see the realization of those skills.

From The Daily Beast

And that realization comes at the cost of severe, public embarrassment for many, including the victim/proposed.

From The Daily Beast

The form is defined by the realization of its highest and best potential.

From The Daily Beast

“I was truly appalled by the realization of the deceit involved,” Bradlee wrote.

From The Daily Beast

It was more the realization that he was maturing, even though he might not realize that.

From The Daily Beast

Among them Mrs. Cecil, with a sudden realization of her eighty years of cushioned ease and her one hour of sitting on a board.

From Project Gutenberg

Deep within him he knew that he had become a stranger to his own wife and the realization sharply increased his torment.

From Project Gutenberg

If such a realization had only come a hundred years ago, a great service would have been done the historian and the antiquarian.

From Project Gutenberg

No consciousness of the great mission of his class, no proud realization of the part he himself had acted in the noble struggle.

From Project Gutenberg

My imprisonment, the vexations of jail life, the future—all is submerged in the flood of misery at the realization of my failure.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• achievement
• awareness
• fulfillment
• understanding