Realization

Noun

 * 1) The act of realizing; an act of figuring out or becoming aware.
 * He came to the startling realization that he had never really known.
 * 1) The act of realizing; the act of making real.
 * He did not stay around long enough to see the realization of the idea.
 * The realization of the plan took several years.
 * 1) The result of an artistic effort.
 * The painter's realization of her concept was breathtaking.

Related terms

 * real
 * realism
 * realistic
 * reality
 * realizable
 * realize

Adjectives for Realization
hideous; evident; uninterrupted; vivid; devotional; bitter; dawning; living; piteous; stabbing; poseful; shocking; exact; eternal; dark.

Verbs for Realization
achieve—; anticipate—; attain—; demand —; effect—; fancy—; jar into—; jolt into —; labor under—; register—; strive for—; struggle for—; —completes; —crowns; — dawns; —dazes; —discharges; —fulfills; — grows upon; —perfects ; —strikes; —stuns.

Thesaurus
accident, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, actualization, alphabet, apparition, appearance, appearing, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, apprehension, arising, art, attainment, avatar, awareness, blueprint, bringing to fruition, carrying out, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, closure, cognition, cognizance, coming, coming into being, coming to be, coming-forth, completion, comprehension, conception, consciousness, constitution, consummation, contingency, contingent, conventional representation, culmination, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, discharge, disclosure, dispatch, distinguishment, doing, drama, drawing, effectuation, emergence, epiphany, establishment, event, eventuality, eventuation, execution, exemplification, exposure, fait accompli, figuration, formation, forthcoming, foundation, fruition, fulfillment, hieroglyphic, iconography, identification, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, implementation, inauguration, incarnation, inception, incidence, insight, installation, institution, issuance, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, manifestation, map, materialization, materializing, mindfulness, mission accomplished, musical notation, noesis, notation, note, notice, occurrence, opening, operation, organization, overproduction, perception, perfection, performance, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentation, presentment, printing, production, productiveness, projection, recognition, reidentification, rendering, rendition, representation, revelation, rise, rising, schema, score, script, sensibility, setting-up, showing, showing forth, success, syllabary, symbol, tablature, theophany, topping-off, understanding, unfolding, unfoldment, writing

Alternative forms

 * realisation

Translations

 * Finnish: tajuaminen, toteutuminen, toteuttaminen, realisointi
 * French:
 * Russian: (1), осознание (1), осуществление (2),  (2), исполнение (3), постановка (3)
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish: comprensión (1), realización (2)

Anagrams

 * rationalize