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Answer for the clue "Making real or giving the appearance of reality ", 13 letters:
actualization

Word definitions for actualization in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. making real or giving the appearance of reality [syn: realization , realisation , actualisation ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1824, noun of action from actualize .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context nonstandard English) A making actual or really existent; noun form of actualize. n. (context nonstandard English) A making actual or really existent; noun form of actualize.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Actualisation \Ac`tu*al*i*sa"tion\, Actualization \Ac`tu*al*i*za"tion\, n. A making actual or really existent; giving the appearance of reality. [R.] --Emerson. Syn: realization, realisation.

Usage examples of actualization.

But when the atoms come under the influence of the higher-level morphogenetic field of a molecule, these probabilities are modified in such a way that the probability of events leading toward the actualization of the final form are enhanced, while the probability of other events is diminished.

Actuality the abstract: we must not confuse it with the other actualization, strictly so called, that which is contrasted with the power producing actualization.

Actualization is predicable in the Intellectual Realm and whether all is in Actualization there, each and every member of that realm being an Act, or whether Potentiality also has place there.

But after what mode does Actualization exist in the Intellectual Realm?

Is it the Actualization of a statue, where the combination is realized because the Form-Idea has mastered each separate constituent of the total?

Then, everything, in the intellectual is in actualization and so all There is Actuality?

Grasped, then, as an underlie in each order of Being, it can be no actualization of either: all that is allowed to it is to be a Potentiality, a weak and blurred phantasm, a thing incapable of a Shape of its own.

So that Matter, as the Actualization of Non-Being, is all the more decidedly Non-Being, is Authentic Non-Existence.

Thus, since the very reality of its Nature is situated in Non-Being, it is in no degree the Actualization of any definite Being.

If it is to be present at all, it cannot be an Actualization, for then it would not be the stray from Authentic Being which it is, the thing having its Being in Non-Beingness: for, note, in the case of things whose Being is a falsity, to take away the falsity is to take away what Being they have, and if we introduce Actualization into things whose Being and Essence is Potentiality, we destroy the foundation of their nature since their Being is Potentiality.

No doubt the eternally self-identical may have potentiality and be self-led to self-realization, but even in this case the being considered as actualized is of higher order than the being considered as merely capable of actualization and moving towards a desired Term.

How could that potentiality come to actuality unless there be, first, an effective principle to induce the actualization which, left to chance, might never occur?

If on the other hand by this actualization it is meant that he is Act and Intellection, then as being Intellection he does not exercise it, just as movement is not itself in motion.

Being, it can be no actualization of either: all that is allowed to it is to be a Potentiality, a weak and blurred phantasm, a thing incapable of a Shape of its own.

Matter, as the Actualization of Non-Being, is all the more decidedly Non-Being, is Authentic Non-Existence.