Other forms: realizations
A realization is the moment of coming to understand something. It was there all along and now you have seen it.
It usually arrives suddenly and often unwelcomely, so the realization that he had left the keys inside is a familiar sort of moment. It takes that. There is a second and quite separate sense meaning the making of something real, so the realization of a plan is its achievement, and finance uses it for turning assets into cash. British English usually spells it with an s. The verb is realize, which also means simply to notice.
1nounrealizationThe moment of suddenly understanding something.
“The realization came to her halfway home.”
2nounachievingThe achieving of something planned.
“It was the realization of thirty years of work.”
Also accepted in games: realisation
French
réalisation
English, today
realization
From French réalisation. From French réalisation, from Middle French -; equivalent to realize + ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA