Realized vs Reality - What's the difference?
realized | reality |
(realize)
To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish.
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To become aware of a fact or situation.
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To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.
* 1887 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) , II:
* (rfdate), (Benjamin Jowett).
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(business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get
* (rfdate) (Macaulay)
(transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares, bonds, etc.
* (rfdate) (Washington Irving)
(transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
The state of being actual or real.
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*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
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, title= A real entity, event or other fact.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:And to realities yield all her shows.
*(James Beattie) (1735-1803)
*:My neck may be an idea to you, but it is reality to me.
The entirety of all that is real.
An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
(lb) Loyalty; devotion.
*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:To express our reality to the emperor.
Realty; real estate.
As a verb realized
is (realize).As a noun reality is
the state of being actual or real.realized
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Verb
(head)realize
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Alternative forms
* realise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(realiz)- We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth.
- That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
- Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us.
- We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment.
- Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate.
- Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize , a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real.
Synonyms
* (to convert to actuality) accomplish, actualizeDerived terms
* realizable * realizationReferences
* * ----reality
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Noun
(en-noun)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality : we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today