noun
- Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly.
- usage: "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases"
- synonyms: realisation, recognition
- Making real or giving the appearance of reality.
- synonyms: realisation, actualization, actualisation
- A musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer.
- synonyms: realisation
- 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.
- synonyms: realisation
- The completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer.
- synonyms: realisation
- Something that is made real or concrete.
- usage: "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work"
- synonyms: realisation, fruition
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