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fruition¹

  • /fɹuˈɪʃən/ UK
  • /fɹuˈɪʃən/ US

Rhymes with -ɪʃən

Where it comes from

From Latin fruitiō (“enjoyment”). By surface analysis, fruit + -ion.

noun fruitions

  1. countable, uncountable The fulfillment of something worked for. After six years of hard work, the engineers had brought the project to fruition.
  2. countable, uncountable The enjoyment derived from a possession.

fruition²

  • /fɹuˈɪʃən/ UK
  • /fɹuˈɪʃən/ US

Rhymes with -ɪʃən

Where it comes from

Erroneously from fruit (though now standard usage)

noun fruitions

  1. The condition of bearing fruit.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: realization, realisation, success, achievement, enjoyment, completion, reality, practice, fact, outcome, result, term, maturity, ripeness, day, culmination

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noun fulfillment of something worked for

Españolfructificación
中文实现 shíxiàn, 完成 wánchéng
Portuguêsrealização
DeutschVerwirklichung
Italianorealizzazione
Русскийосуществление osuščestvlenije, реализация realizacija

noun enjoyment derived from a possession

中文享用 xiǎngyòng
Françaisjouissance
Italianogodimento

noun condition of bearing fruit

Españolfructificación
中文结果实
Françaisfructification
Italianofruttificazione
Русскийплодоношение plodonošenije

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@misc{fruition_2026,
  title = {fruition},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fruition},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}