Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Realization of something desired or worked for; accomplishment.
- noun Enjoyment derived from use or possession.
- noun The condition of bearing fruit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coming into fruit or fulfilment; attainment of anything desired; realization of results: as, the fruition of one's labors or hopes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
fulfillment of something worked for. - noun The
enjoyment derived from apossession . - noun The
condition ofbearing fruit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the condition of bearing fruit
- noun enjoyment derived from use or possession
- noun something that is made real or concrete
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The only way you'll ever see long term projects such as the VSE or SBSP come to fruition is to hand NASA lock stock and barrel to the Congress.
Canceling SOMD's Space Based Solar Power Work - NASA Watch 2008
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Cool stuff indeed, but the probability that any of it comes to fruition is worth analyzing after the jump.
Could Jonah Nolan Direct MAN OF STEEL While Christopher Nolan Directs JUSTICE LEAGUE? – Collider.com 2010
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His only hope of coming to true fruition is to get to America, where there is insurmountable opportunity.
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I have a simple business model that, though unlikely to come to fruition, is simply too good to be overlooked.
What’s Your Personal Business Model? | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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What about encouraging students to become politically aware and involved, to set personal and academic goals and to take responsibility for doing what they can to bring those goals to fruition is socialist????
Florida GOP chair: Obama trying to 'indoctrinate' children 2009
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His only hope of coming to true fruition is to get to America, where there is insurmountable opportunity.
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Have experienced too much to think that you do not have imperfections and bad days, but what you have accomplished with unwavering hard work as a loving husband and father while bringing your dream of owning a vineyard and producing your own wines to fruition is no small feat but a tribute to a tough, loving, wise, and devoted man.
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That their predictions have not yet come to fruition is an anomaly of economics. not technology.
The coming revolution that will change everything. « The Paradigm Shift 2006
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Him hereafter, as by the conferring cause, when hope shall be swallowed up in fruition [Pearson].
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And now, as we see those fears removed, and those hopes reaching fruition, is it too soon, even on this day of humiliation and sadness, in view of all that has been done, -- in view of all that has been gained, and of all that has been
Strength in Sorrow 1865
brtom commented on the word fruition
... and equally enjoying
God-like fruition, quitted all to save
A World from utter loss ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
qroqqa commented on the word fruition
This changed its meaning in the nineteenth century. Although it is related to 'fruit', the ultimate root of both is Latin fru- "enjoy", and English 'fruition' originally meant "enjoyment". In the 1800s it shifted to its present meaning of "completion, fulfilment" in expressions such as 'come to fruition'.
I think it is seldom used in the supposedly literal sense "fruiting", but this was presumably part of the bridging meaning: after your orchard fruits you have its fruition.
December 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the word fruition
“Some days passed before I could rid my thoughts of Thecla of certain impressions belonging to the false Thecla who had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
May 16, 2010