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fruition /frʊˈɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1The realization or fulfilment of a plan or project: the plans have come to fruition rather sooner than expected...- We can see the fruition of its policy in the venture capital provisions of this bill.
- But in another sense, academic blogging represents the fruition, not a betrayal, of the university's ideals.
- Next Monday night was to be the fruition of all the plans they laid when they were together.
Synonyms fulfilment, realization, actualization, materialization; achievement, attainment, accomplishment, resolution; success, completion, consummation, conclusion, close, finish, perfection; maturity, maturation, ripening, ripeness; effecting, implementation, execution, performance informal winding up, sewing up, polishing off rare effectuation, reification 2 literary The state or action of producing fruit: the apples in the orchards gave a suggestion of sour fruition Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'enjoyment'): via Old French from late Latin fruitio(n-), from frui 'enjoy' (see fruit); the current senses (dating from the late 19th century) arose by association with fruit. Rhymes academician, addition, aesthetician (US esthetician), ambition, audition, beautician, clinician, coition, cosmetician, diagnostician, dialectician, dietitian, Domitian, edition, electrician, emission, fission, Hermitian, ignition, linguistician, logician, magician, mathematician, Mauritian, mechanician, metaphysician, mission, monition, mortician, munition, musician, obstetrician, omission, optician, paediatrician (US pediatrician), patrician, petition, Phoenician, physician, politician, position, rhetorician, sedition, statistician, suspicion, tactician, technician, theoretician, Titian, tuition, volition |