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Materialization

noun
1.
The process of coming into being; becoming reality.  Synonym: materialisation.
2.
An appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit).  Synonyms: manifestation, materialisation.
3.
Something that comes into existence as a result.  Synonyms: materialisation, offspring.  "This skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"






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"Materialization" Quotes from Famous Books



... friend, cried out: 'This is one caught in the process of materialization! It is not ...
— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes

... performance from the printed text of a composition are frequently the work of the composer himself. If really an artist, he is rarely perfectly satisfied with his completed work. The difference between his ideal and his materialization of it, is a source of anguish for him. The journey made by a vision of art from the brain that conceives it to the hand that imprisons it in marble, or depicts it in colour, or pens it in words or music, is a long one. And much grace or power, beauty or grandeur, is inevitably ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam

... touch upon the Materialization of Thought, which conception loses a part of the absurdity with which Spiritualists and Occultists have invested it, if we regard all nature as one substance. For, in truth, all that was ever perceived, even to the shadow of a dream by a lunatic, had as real an existence while it lasted ...
— The Mystic Will • Charles Godfrey Leland

... character and circumstance an interest far transcending that felt in the engagement of the most romantic lovers. Some note of the fact came to us by accident, as one evening when we stood near a couple and heard them talking. "It must be very weird," the man said; "something like being engaged to a materialization." "Yes," said the girl, "quite the Demon Lover business, I should think." She glanced round, as people do, in talking, and, at sight of us, she involuntarily put her hand over her mouth. I looked at Eveleth; there ...
— Through the Eye of the Needle - A Romance • W. D. Howells



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



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