3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Realization \Re'al*i*za"tion\ (r[=e]'al*[i^]*z[=a]"sh[u^]n), noun [Cf. F. r['e]alisation.] The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
realization
noun
1: 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" [syn: {realisation}, {recognition}] 2: making real or giving the appearance of reality [syn: {realisation}, {actualization}, {actualisation}] 3: a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer [syn: {realisation}] 4: 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 [syn: {realisation}] 5: the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer [syn: {realisation}] 6: something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work" [syn: {realisation}, {fruition}]From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "realization": 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