fruition

fru·ition

noun \frü-ˈi-shən\

Definition of FRUITION

1

: pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment

2

a : the state of bearing fruit

b : realization

Examples of FRUITION

1. <when she landed the lead in a Broadway play, a lifelong dream was brought to fruition>
2. These were dreams of long standing that had finally come to fruition … —Nicholas Fraser, Harper's, September 1996
3. Truth is a weapon so powerful that the slowness of its fruition matters little in the end. —Edith Hamilton, New Yorker, 12 Sept. 1994
4. The ground thaws, the sap flows, then comes the leaf, the bud, the full flowering of national and individual entitlements, an unstoppable surge toward the glorious fruition promised by the idea of independence. —Janette Turner Hospital, New York Times Book Review, 30 Dec. 1990

Origin of FRUITION

Middle English fruicioun, from Anglo-French or Late Latin; Anglo-French fruicion, from Late Latin fruition-, fruitio, from Latin frui (see ¹fruit)

First Known Use: 15th century

Related to FRUITION

Synonyms

accomplishment, achievement, actuality, actualization, attainment, consummation, fulfillment (or fulfilment), pass, realization

Antonyms

naught (also nought), nonfulfillment

Related Words

success, triumph

Near Antonyms

defeat, failure, fizzle, nonsuccess

Rhymes with FRUITION

addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition