realisation

1. 1.

   a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer

   Synonymsrealization

   Broadermusical composition
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsrealizationrecognition

   Broaderunderstanding
3. 3.

   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

   Synonymsrealization

   Broadersale
4. 4.

   the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer

   Synonymsrealization

   Broadercomposing
5. 5.

   making real or giving the appearance of reality

   Synonymsrealizationactualizationactualisation

   Broadercreating by mental acts

   Narrowerobjectification
6. 6.

   something that is made real or concrete

   “the victory was the realization of a whole year's work”

   Synonymsrealizationfruition

   Broaderconsummation

Other forms of realisation

plural

realisations·

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.

Questions about realisation

What does realisation mean?

realisation means "a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in realisation?

realisation has 4 syllables: rea-li-sa-tion. The stress falls on "rea". In IPA it is /ˈɹiləˈzeɪʃən/.

What is another word for realisation?

Close synonyms include realization, realization, recognition, realization, realization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is realisation a common word?

realisation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with realisation?

94 words rhyme with realisation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.