FRUITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fruition mean? 

• FRUITION (noun)
  The noun FRUITION has 3 senses:

1. the condition of bearing fruit

2. enjoyment derived from use or possession

3. something that is made real or concrete

  Familiarity information: FRUITION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition of bearing fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("fruition" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Derivation:

fruit (bear fruit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Enjoyment derived from use or possession

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("fruition" is a kind of...):

enjoyment; use ((law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something that is made real or concrete

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fruition; realisation; realization

Context example:

the victory was the realization of a whole year's work

Hypernyms ("fruition" is a kind of...):

consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)

 Context examples 

Something career-oriented is coming to fruition.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

No, Jane, no: this world is not the scene of fruition; do not attempt to make it so: nor of rest; do not turn slothful.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was long before Fanny could recover from the agitating happiness of such an hour as was formed by the last thirty minutes of expectation, and the first of fruition; it was some time even before her happiness could be said to make her happy, before the disappointment inseparable from the alteration of person had vanished, and she could see in him the same William as before, and talk to him, as her heart had been yearning to do through many a past year.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I call it the start of your Emerald Year—a year when so many of your dreams will come to fruition.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it was no longer plain: there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition, and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Something of enormous personal importance to you will come to fruition, and when it occurs, it will thrill you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Hold onto your dreams, dear Pisces, for this year you may see the fruition of a long-held dream finally come true.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This same full moon of March 9 could bring a creative project to fruition, one that you would be proud to show and that would likely generate international appreciation.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You can always take that clue and add extra energy to that goal that apparently, you’ve worked on and were hoping would come to fruition.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This full moon is a vital one, for it will bring something that is dearly important to you to fruition.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)