Synonyms:
realization, realisation, recognition
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
realization, realisation, actualization, actualisation
Meaning: making real or giving the appearance of reality
Usage examples
The realization was almost impossible to accept.
All at once the realization came to him that the pony had thrown him off.
The law favored this realization of the serf, in not allowing him to be sold out of the country."
Wealth, even in an economic view, is not the end of life, but merely the means to its realization.
After several days' fight for the child's life came the realization, one evening, that the angel of death was at hand.
With this realization came the painful knowledge that the planet and the people that had produced this understanding were dead.
Sometimes, suddenly startled by an intense realization of the contrast between her past and her present life, she would mentally inquire:
Interest means that one is identified with the objects which define the activity and which furnish the means and obstacles to its realization.
The nation was shocked into the realization that this was not a street brawl between women and policemen, but a controversy between suffragists and a powerful Administration.
I was now still further apprehensive as to the fate of Dian, and at this time, I imagine, came the first realization that my affection for the girl might be prompted by more than friendship.