[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

realization \re`aliza"tion\ r=e`ali^z=a"shu^n, n.
   cf. f. r'ealisation.
   the act of realizing, or the state of being realized.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

realization
     n 1: coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "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" syn: realisation, recognition
     2: making real or giving the appearance of reality syn: realisation,
         actualization, actualisation
     3: a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by
        someone other than the composer syn: realisation
     4: 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 syn: realisation
     5: the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left
        sparsely notated by a composer syn: realisation
     6: something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was
        the realization of a whole year's work" syn: realisation,
         fruition
see also:
realisation recognition actualization actualisation fruition 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

148 moby thesaurus words for "realization":
   accident, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement,
   actualization, alphabet, apparition, appearance, appearing,
   apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, apprehension,
   arising, art, attainment, avatar, awareness, blueprint,
   bringing to fruition, carrying out, charactering, characterization,
   chart, choreography, closure, cognition, cognizance, coming,
   coming into being, coming to be, coming-forth, completion,
   comprehension, conception, consciousness, constitution,
   consummation, contingency, contingent, conventional representation,
   culmination, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction,
   depictment, diagram, discharge, disclosure, dispatch,
   distinguishment, doing, drama, drawing, effectuation, emergence,
   epiphany, establishment, event, eventuality, eventuation,
   execution, exemplification, exposure, fait accompli, figuration,
   formation, forthcoming, foundation, fruition, fulfillment,
   hieroglyphic, iconography, identification, ideogram, illustration,
   imagery, imaging, implementation, inauguration, incarnation,
   inception, incidence, insight, installation, institution, issuance,
   letter, limning, logogram, logograph, manifestation, map,
   materialization, materializing, mindfulness, mission accomplished,
   musical notation, noesis, notation, note, notice, occurrence,
   opening, operation, organization, overproduction, perception,
   perfection, performance, pictogram, picturization, plan,
   portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentation, presentment,
   printing, production, productiveness, projection, recognition,
   reidentification, rendering, rendition, representation, revelation,
   rise, rising, schema, score, script, sensibility, setting-up,
   showing, showing forth, success, syllabary, symbol, tablature,
   theophany, topping-off, understanding, unfolding, unfoldment,
   writing

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