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say it: REE-luh-zay-shuhn
realization is a noun meaning "coming to understand something clearly and distinctly". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
making real or giving the appearance of reality
a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
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
the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
something that is made real or concrete
“the victory was the realization of a whole year's work”
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 realization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.