Realization
[riːəlaɪ'zeɪʃn] or [,riələ'zeʃən]
Definition
(noun.) something that is made real or concrete; 'the victory was the realization of a whole year's work'.
(noun.) making real or giving the appearance of reality.
(noun.) the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer.
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer.
Checker: Maryann--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.
Editor: Maris
Examples
- The realization of my boyish day-dreams is at hand. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In the subsequent chapters (XVIII-XXII) we considered the present limitation of its actual realization. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Interest measures--or rather is--the depth of the grip which the foreseen end has upon one, moving one to act for its realization. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Science, in short, signifies a realization of the logical implications of any knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Only a personal response involving imagination can possibly procure realization even of pure facts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Interest means that one is identified with the objects which define the activity and which furnish the means and obstacles to its realization. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As Jane opened her eyes to a realization of the imminent peril which threatened her, her brave young heart gave up at last its final vestige of hope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- What they wanted is on the point of realization. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was to be the substantial realization of the peace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Through all the world grows the realization that there can be no securely happy individual life without a righteous general life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Men move more swiftly and surely to the realization of their ends, but their ends too largely remain what they were prior to scientific enlightenment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So peaceful was her end that it was hours before Clayton could awake to a realization that his wife was dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- What alone was wanting to the realization of a vast fortune, he considered to be More Capital. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- So imperfect was this realization of the first of my great expectations, that I looked in dismay at Mr. Wemmick. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Appreciative realizations are to be distinguished from symbolic or representative experiences. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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