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actualized

actualized \actualized\ adj. changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.

Syn: realized

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actualized

vb. (en-past of: actualize)

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actualized

adj. changed from potential to actual; "saw his worst fears actualized" [syn: actualised]

Usage examples of "actualized".

Kosmos that produced the human brain are being, to some degree, recognized by that brain: in this special sense, they are discoveries, un-coveries, recognitions, anamnesias, recollections, apprehensions of patterns and worldspaces present as potentials but only now being actualized or apprehended in individual cases.

Although we have a lower unconscious that contains mainly images and fantasies, says Plotinus, all of the higher levels of being are for most people merely potentials waiting to be actualized in their own case and manifested in their own being.

However well that does indeed describe aspects of mythic dissociation, it has precisely nothing to do with one's own transpersonal potentials, vertical potentials that if they aren't actualized are merely projected horizontally into utterly futile schemes to turn this finite world into a Utopian world of infinite wonderment: an infinite above collapses into an infinite ahead, and whether that infinite ahead be endless scientific progress or boundless material possessions or political utopianisms as ultimate salvation, they are all fundamentally ways of fussing about in the finite looking for the infinite, and doing irreparable harm to the finite world in the process by placing demands upon it which it could never fulfill.

She used the alla to create a little aquarium, then projected into the water a bright-line disk-shape that actualized into a clear bell of jelly-which began steadily beating.

Shimmer used her body's internal alla to project a bright-line cube that actualized itself into a knee-high block of imipolex.

Second, he actualized a golf-ball-sized sphere that resembled perhaps a goldfish bowl with luminous fish in it.

He quickly found the clothing area of Om's Metamartian catalog and actualized two of the colorful loose caftans.

He actualized an imipolex figure and equipped it with camera-eyes, an uvvy, a rudimentary niobium wire nervous system, and a control patch like he'd given Willa Jean.

If he really had been dead and some other guy had picked up the alla, then maybe the alla would have actualized a fresh Randy, but more likely the new guy would have chosen to register the alla to himself.

Ginger would have responded to the pathos of it all-such self-denying, un actualized essentially lost women-were she not so distracted by seeking out and availing herself of the buried acorns they had squirreled away in all the corners of the house, indeed, craftily concealed, Ginger could not help but suspect, from someone very like herself whom they had anticipated with their sharp if squandered intelligences.

Hugh Steeply did need the humiliations of his absurd field-personae, that the more grotesque or unconvincing he seemed likely to be as a disguised persona the more nourished and actualized his deep parts felt in the course of preparation for the humiliating attempt to portray.

My first sale to Playboy, a secret dream actualized through the direct involvement in my life of Huck Barkin.