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Materialization

noun

The process of coming into being; becoming reality. Synonym: materialisation.

An appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit). Synonyms: manifestation, materialisation.

Something that comes into existence as a result. Synonyms: materialisation, offspring. "This skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"

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Etymology of 'Materialization'

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"Materialization" Quotes from Famous Books

... personal and real property, is a spontaneous and universal fact, which has its source in the depths of our nature, and which soon becomes, by its natural development, one of the most potent means of organization. I shall prove even that interest on capital is but the materialization of the aphorism, ALL LABOR SHOULD LEAVE AN EXCESS. But in the face of this theory, or rather this fiction, of the productivity of capital, arises another thesis no less certain, which in these latter days has struck the ablest economists: it is ...

— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... for the change, of course. Her sudden materialization and the freak of fortune which had thrown her, weak and ill, upon our hands, were responsible for everything. For how much more, how many other changes, she would be responsible the future only could answer. And the future would answer in its own good, or bad, time. My conundrum ...

— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln

Words linked to "Materialization" : effect, upshot, activity, materialisation, appearance, manifestation, consequence, issue, offspring, event, natural process, action, materialize, outcome, natural action, result