A realization is the act of becoming completely aware of something. Many children who walk into a circus tent for the first time are struck with the realization that clowns are terrifying.
A realization is a gradual or sudden understanding or comprehension of something. Another way to use the word realization is to mean the fulfillment of something that was previously only imagined, like the realization of your dream of becoming a pastry chef, or the realization on stage of the play you scribbled on napkins and scraps of paper. Realization grew out of the French réaliser, "to make real."
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coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
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making real or giving the appearance of reality
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a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
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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
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