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Coming to understand something by thinking about it
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realization
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of realizing; an act of figuring out or becoming aware. 2 The act of realizing; the act of making real. 3 The result of an artistic effort.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Biographie , or Realization , is a sport climbing route on a crag on the southern face of the Montagne de Céüse near Gap and Céüse , France . The first person to successfully climb Biographie was Chris Sharma , who did not grade the climb. It is generally ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Realization \Re`al*i*za"tion\ (r[=e]`al*[i^]*z[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES belated recognition/realization/acknowledgement ▪ The statement was a belated acknowledgement that the project had not been a success. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE full ▪ In short, rationality is a condition ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "action of making real," from realize + -ation . Meaning "action of forming a clear concept" is from 1828. Related: Realizational .
Usage examples of realization.
Whereas our attention was first drawn to the intensity of the elements of virtuality that constituted the multitude, now it must focus on the hypothesis that those virtualities accumulate and reach a threshold of realization adequate to their power.
We certainly agree with those contemporary theorists, such as David Harvey and Fredric Jameson, who see postmodernity as a new phase of capitalist accumulation and commodification that accompanies the contemporary realization of the world market.
And when inexplicable delays and the accumulation of obstacles made the realization of the expected result amidst the conditions of the present world seem ever more and more hopeless, the growing and assimilative action of faith and fancy expanded the scene, and transferred it to a transmundane state, involving the destruction of the heavens and earth and their replacement with a new creation.
The realization pleased Gabriel as much for the promise of how easy it would be to outmaneuver her as the possibility that not all of her beguiling innocence was tainted yet.
We cannot doubt, however, that the experience of excruciating agony affecting the very nerves upon which he had so often experimented must have brought to the dying man a deeper realization of the pain he had caused than he could otherwise have known.
When Turan the panthan regained consciousness it was to the realization of a sharp pain in one of his forearms.
Asey nodded, and privately decided it had taken an incredibly long time for Miss Pitkin to achieve such a realization.
He had gotten into the scene the first time by suffering a realization that there was something of importance underneath the punny facade.
Her stunned reaction was quickly followed by an urge to laugh aloud at the realization Repp had been jealous.
I thought for a moment that I recalled where I had seen that baffling name of Sleght before, and the prospect of realization filled me with unutterable horror.
And this brought me to the realization that there is something evil and twisted about the campaign process: the traveling, the speechifying, the television spots.
That was his first realization that there was something more beneath the starchy clothing and grim demeanor.
Even as this horrible realization came to her, the first young strid forced its way through the opening, and came ambling across the web toward her on its eight hairy legs.
It was several seconds before the sounds upon the opposite side of the partition jolted my slowly returning faculties into a realization of their probable import, and then of a sudden I grasped the fact that they were caused by Tars Tarkas in what was evidently a desperate struggle with wild beasts or savage men.
Two rival sections of the Colonial Affairs Administration had each recorded that the other was responsible for handling Tharle, out at Xylon-B, and a hundred years was how long it had taken for the realization to dawn that nobody was.