materializations
Things becoming visible
Materializations are instances of something becoming real, visible, or physically present.
The word most often appears in two contexts: spiritualism, where it refers to the supposed appearance of spirits or ghostly forms during séances, and more general usage describing abstract concepts taking concrete form.
The materializations of her long-term plans finally began appearing in the company's quarterly reports.
In computing and databases, materialization refers to storing query results as physical data rather than computing them on demand.
Concrete manifestation of idea
- incarnationQuality given bodily presence
- realizationGrasping what's true
- actualizationMaking something fully real
- concretizationMaking abstract things tangible
expression · externalization · personification · substantiation · crystallization · objectification · visualization · representation
Supernatural visible manifestations
- ghostsSpirits of the deceased
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- phantomsApparitions, especially illusory
- spectersVisible ghostly presences
wraiths · poltergeists · hauntings · seance · ectoplasm · mediumship · channeling · phantasmagoria
Coming into existence
- appearanceOutward visible form
- arisingComing into being
- surfacingComing to the surface
- onsetStarting point of something
development · unfolding · happening · genesis · inception · commencement · birth · transpiring
embodiment
Concrete manifestation of idea
- incarnationQuality given bodily presence
- realizationGrasping what's true
- actualizationMaking something fully real
concretization · expression · externalization · personification · substantiation · crystallization · objectification · visualization · representation · projection
apparitions
Supernatural visible manifestations
specters · wraiths · poltergeists · hauntings · seance · ectoplasm · mediumship · channeling · phantasmagoria · visitations
emergence
Coming into existence
- appearanceOutward visible form
- arisingComing into being
- surfacingComing to the surface
onset · development · unfolding · happening · genesis · inception · commencement · birth · transpiring · eventuating
- ghostsapparitions, ghosts, apparition, phantoms, specter
materializationsdisappearances
Acts of becoming gone
vanishings · evaporations · dissipations · fadeouts · dissolutions
materializationsabstractions
Non-concrete conceptual ideas
conceptualizations · theorizations · pipe dreams · vaporware · idealizations
materializationsdissolutions
Acts of formally ending
disintegrations · dispersals · dissipations · decompositions · dispersions