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realisation

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Noun1.realisation - a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
2.realisationrealisation - 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"
discernment, savvy, understanding, apprehension - the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
3.realisation - 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
cut-rate sale, sales event, sale - an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices; "they held a sale to reduce their inventory"; "I got some great bargains at their annual sale"
4.realisation - the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
composing, composition - musical creation
5.realisation - making real or giving the appearance of reality
creating by mental acts - the act of creating something by thinking
objectification - the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing
6.realisation - something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work"
consummation - the act of bringing to completion or fruition


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I suppose no artist achieves completely the realisation of the dream that obsesses him, and Strickland, harassed incessantly by his struggle with technique, managed, perhaps, less than others to express the vision that he saw with his mind's eye; but in Tahiti the circumstances were favourable to him; he found in his surroundings the accidents necessary for his inspiration to become effective, and his later pictures give at least a suggestion of what he sought.
I stood overcome by this amazing realisation and then the most horrible questionings came rushing into my mind.
He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.
 
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