REALIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does realization mean? 

• REALIZATION (noun)
  The noun REALIZATION has 6 senses:

1. coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

2. making real or giving the appearance of reality

3. a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer

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

5. the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer

6. something that is made real or concrete

  Familiarity information: REALIZATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REALIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

realisation; realization; recognition

Context example:

increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases

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

apprehension; discernment; savvy; understanding (the cognitive condition of someone who understands)

Derivation:

realize (perceive (an idea or situation) mentally)

realize (be fully aware or cognizant of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Making real or giving the appearance of reality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

actualisation; actualization; realisation; realization

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

creating by mental acts (the act of creating something by thinking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "realization"):

objectification (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)

Derivation:

realize (make real or concrete; give reality or substance to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

realisation; realization

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

composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)

Derivation:

realize (expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

realisation; realization

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

cut-rate sale; sale; sales event (an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices)

Derivation:

realize (convert into cash; of goods and property)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

realisation; realization

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

composing; composition (musical creation)

Derivation:

realize (expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass)

Sense 6

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 ("realization" is a kind of...):

consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)

Derivation:

realize (make real or concrete; give reality or substance to)

 Context examples 

Edith, on the other hand, had realized; but the realization did not make the task any easier.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The realization of my boyish day-dreams is at hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was stung by his words into realization of the puerility of her act, and yet she felt that he had magnified it unduly and was consequently resentful.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had been uneasy during all our journey from town, and I had observed that he had turned over the morning papers with anxious attention, but now this sudden realization of his worst fears left him in a blank melancholy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That is easier said than done sometimes, so if you must sign or lose the apartment or house, do it, but with the realization that you might not be living in that space as long as you think you will.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The realization that a vast aquatic system of rivers and lakes exists beneath the ice in Antarctica has spurred investigations to examine the effect on ice-sheet stability and the habitability of environments at the bed.

(800 meters beneath Antarctic ice sheet, subglacial lake holds viable microbial ecosystems, NSF)

Impatient for the realization of all that he hoped at home, his adieus were not long; and they would have been yet shorter, had he not been frequently detained by the urgent entreaties of his fair one that he would go.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And here was the man Spencer, organizing all knowledge for him, reducing everything to unity, elaborating ultimate realities, and presenting to his startled gaze a universe so concrete of realization that it was like the model of a ship such as sailors make and put into glass bottles.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When I thought of the airy dreams of youth that are incapable of realization, I thought of the better state preceding manhood that I had outgrown; and then the contented days with Agnes, in the dear old house, arose before me, like spectres of the dead, that might have some renewal in another world, but never more could be reanimated here.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had a greedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels—I forget what, now—that were on those shelves; and for days and days I can remember to have gone about my region of our house, armed with the centre-piece out of an old set of boot-trees—the perfect realization of Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger of being beset by savages, and resolved to sell his life at a great price.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)