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Materialisation

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






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"Materialisation" Quotes from Famous Books



... tissue of his work. He wished to present life dispassionately and intellectually, and if he could have reduced his novels to a series of mathematical symbols, he would have been charmed. The contrast between his method and that of Balzac is remarkable. That wonderful art of materialisation, of the sensuous evocation of the forms, the qualities, the very stuff and substance of things, which was perhaps Balzac's greatest discovery, Beyle neither possessed nor wished to possess. Such matters were to him of the most subordinate importance, which it was no small ...
— Books and Characters - French and English • Lytton Strachey



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