REALISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does realisation mean? 

• REALISATION (noun)
  The noun REALISATION has 6 senses:

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

2. coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

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

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

5. making real or giving the appearance of reality

6. something that is made real or concrete

  Familiarity information: REALISATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REALISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

realisation; realization

Hypernyms ("realisation" is a kind of...):

composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

realisation; realization; recognition

Context example:

increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases

Hypernyms ("realisation" is a kind of...):

apprehension; discernment; savvy; understanding (the cognitive condition of someone who understands)

Derivation:

realise (perceive (an idea or situation) mentally)

realise (be fully aware or cognizant of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

realisation; realization

Hypernyms ("realisation" is a kind of...):

cut-rate sale; sale; sales event (an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices)

Derivation:

realise (convert into cash; of goods and property)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

realisation; realization

Hypernyms ("realisation" is a kind of...):

composing; composition (musical creation)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Making real or giving the appearance of reality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

actualisation; actualization; realisation; realization

Hypernyms ("realisation" is a kind of...):

creating by mental acts (the act of creating something by thinking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "realisation"):

objectification (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)

Derivation:

realise (make real or concrete; give reality or substance to)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Something that is made real or concrete

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fruition; realisation; realization

Context example:

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

Hypernyms ("realisation" is a kind of...):

consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)

Derivation:

realise (make real or concrete; give reality or substance to)

 Context examples 

To those that survived it was not tragedy, but realisation and achievement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, I thought I caught a glance, heard a tone, beheld a form, which announced the realisation of my dream: but I was presently undeserved.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Had I not seen the repose in the first place, and the gladness that stole over it just ere the final dissolution came, as realisation that the soul had been won, I could not have gone further with my butchery.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realisation would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so much meat, a quest of ravenous animals, to be torn and slashed by their hungry fangs, to be sustenance to them as the moose and the rabbit had often been sustenance to him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)