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fruition

fruition

1 6.5
The time when a plant produces fruit
  • noun
  • /fruˈɪʃən/
translation icon : fructificación
  • You talked about developmental versus fruition practice, and I'll get back to it is the dimension of awareness itself.

Examples

  • And for me, I've been in a world where that goes to its natural fruition, and it's scary.

  • Everything is coming to fruition, and the harvest will be brilliant and terrifying.

    Blog text (28)
  • In the villages, the katsinas dance to bring rain that will allow the plants to germinate and grow to fruition.

    Academic text (2004)
  • It takes several days of soaking them in lime, then in salt water, and then in the sugary brine to bring them to fruition.

    Blog text (22)
  • One possibility for the Space Telescope that may not reach fruition—but a possibility fraught with implications—involves one of the oldest speculations: are we alone in the universe?

    Academic text (1990)
  • But the ground and fruition—the ocean of Dharmakaya, the Truth-Body, Pure Awareness, Awakeness itself—is timelessly available.

    Blog text (3)
  • After years of hard work, her dream of opening a bakery finally came to fruition.

  • The community garden has blossomed, showing the fruition of everyone's efforts and cooperation.

  • With careful planning, their vision for a green park in the city is now seeing fruition.

Synonyms

fruitfulness
vsfruition
1 4.0

Something like land or work that produces healthy growth and useful results

focuses on the specific state or period of actual production
fructification
vsfruition
  • Specialized
9.9

The making of fruit or seeds by a plant

is the broader state or period when production occurs

How Fruitful

fruitage
1 9.7
fruition
1 6.5
flowering
15 2.0

Surface Forms

fruition singular
fruition plural

Morphology

fruition = fruit (transparent) = fruit + ion

This sense refers to the literal state or process of bearing fruit, directly derivable from 'fruit' + '-ion'.

Etymology

Fruition originally meant the time when a plant makes fruit and comes from the Latin fructus, which means 'fruit'. So when trees or vines produce ripe fruit and you can pick and enjoy it, the plant has reached fruition.