Fruition is the point at which a plan finally bears results. Come to fruition, bring it to fruition, years before fruition.
It appears almost only in come to fruition, and the fruit image is a later reading: the Latin actually means enjoyment, and the association with fruit came from the similar sound. The meaning has followed the picture.
1nounfruitionThe point at which a plan finally bears results.
“The project took ten years to reach fruition.”
fruition is a fulfilment.
FRUITion → when the plan bears FRUIT
The plan brings its fruit at last, after all that waiting.
hooks ontofruit
Latin fruitio means enjoyment, from frui, to enjoy; the link to fruit came later by association.
Latin
fruitiō — enjoyment
English, today
fruition
From Latin fruitiō (“enjoyment”). by surface analysis, fruit + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA