realization
ree luh zay shuhn
- n coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
a growing realization of the risk involved - n making real or giving the appearance of reality
- n a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
- n 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
- n the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
- n something that is made real or concrete
the victory was the realization of a whole year's work
- Entry you'll never see: As founder of the Huffington Post, I'm haunted by the realization that many of the bloggers who write for my site don't get paid a dime.
- It was horrified two weeks ago when it awoke to the realization that it had nourished the Peoples Temple, an ostensibly humanitarian and religious cult whose leader, Jim Jones .
- But this skillful piece of rhetoric underlines the realization that has propelled philosophy ever since: that human knowledge is woefully limited.