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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
materialisation is a noun meaning "the process of coming into being; becoming reality". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the process of coming into being; becoming reality
“the materialization of her dream”
an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit)
something that comes into existence as a result
“industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring”
“this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for materialisation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.