materialization
- noun
- /ˌmɛtəˌriəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
- After years of planning, the materialization of the new community center finally took place.
- materialization process
- materialization of the landscape
And the materialization of the costumes is a big responsibility to understand how the textures will work together.
- And the materialization of the costumes is a big responsibility to understand how the textures will work together.
- of our world literally, is a materialization,
- So we have a kind of maybe materialization we could say of of this going on as well.
- It is the vessel for the Godhead to create beings and life and activity and everything of that kind, all materialization.
Examples
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The invention was viewed as the materialization of years of research and hard work by the scientists.
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Uh, Professor, I read one of your books... On the materialization of thought.
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For many years now, I have been working on a theory of thought materialization.
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The natural world is both a realistic backdrop to the action and the materialization of an inner landscape.
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Rather, modern technology is the materialization of Western metaphysics, which is the parent of both modern technology and modern science.
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With the materialization of these projects, the stability of east-west trade will obviously be commensurately greater.
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In this sense, spoken/written words, being a materialization of consciousness, re-create this consciousness.
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There is no doubt that the fanal is a most intriguing materialization of the process of creolization.
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The bungalow aesthetic relies on and produces a proprietary sense of property on which its materialization depends.
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According to Humboldt (Aksan, 1998), language is a prerequisite to the materialization of thought.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
Treating ideas or feelings as if they were a real thing you can touch
Making a plan or idea real
To get active and more real after a time with little activity
The process of turning an idea into something real or making it seem real
Treating an idea as a real thing
Making an idea or plan into something real
Making an idea or plan clear and real with details
The process of treating ideas or feelings like real things
Antonyms
How Real
- Literature
- US
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
materialization = materialize (transparent) = material + ize + ation
Formed by derivation material -> materialize -> materialization; the nominal '-ation' marks the process/result of becoming or making material.
Etymology
Materialization comes from the word material (from Latin materia) which means 'matter' or 'substance', so it is the process of something becoming 'real' or taking a concrete form.