materializing
Taking physical form
Materializing is the present participle of materialize—to take physical form or become real.
Ghosts materialize in horror stories; plans materialize when they finally happen.
The word suggests something emerging from nothing or from the abstract: A figure materialized out of the fog, The funding never materialized.
Come out into view
- surfaceOutermost boundary layer
- manifestClearly apparent or displayed
- take shapeGradually become distinct
- formShape or document
come into view · coalesce · crystallize · reveal · unfold · dawn · loom · flicker
Perceptible by touch
- solidFirm matter state
- concreteSolid building mixture
- corporealHaving physical existence
- substantialOf notable size or importance
palpable · physical · embodying · incarnating · substantiating · objectifying · solidifying
Visible supernatural manifestation
- ghostApparition of the dead
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
séance · conjuring · summoning · ectoplasm · poltergeist · haunting · ethereal · spectral
Making potential become real
- achievingReaching a goal
- accomplishingSuccessfully finishing an undertaking
- fulfillingProviding deep satisfaction
- bringing aboutCausing to happen
executing · implementing · producing · delivering · completing · attaining · reaching · succeeding
emerge
Come out into view
- surfaceOutermost boundary layer
- manifestClearly apparent or displayed
- take shapeGradually become distinct
come into view · form · coalesce · crystallize · reveal · unfold · dawn · loom · flicker · arise
tangible
Perceptible by touch
substantial · palpable · physical · embodying · incarnating · substantiating · objectifying · solidifying
apparition
Visible supernatural manifestation
spirit · séance · conjuring · summoning · ectoplasm · poltergeist · haunting · ethereal · spectral · otherworldly
actualizing
Making potential become real
- achievingReaching a goal
- accomplishingSuccessfully finishing an undertaking
- fulfillingProviding deep satisfaction
bringing about · executing · implementing · producing · delivering · completing · attaining · reaching · succeeding · following through
- happeningshappenings, happening, event, occurrence, events
- visibility changesappearing, disappearing, fading, emerging, vanishing
- showing upshow up, arriving, arrive, attendance, being there
- invisibilityinvisibility, invisible man, cloaking device, invisibility cloak, vanishing
- emergenceemergence, appearing, surfacing, self-organization, arising
materializingdisappearing
Ceasing to be visible
vanishing · fading · dematerializing · dissolving · melting away
materializingdematerializing
Ceasing to exist physically
dissolving · disintegrating · evaporating · dissipating · melting
materializingfalling through
Failing to happen
collapsing · failing · fizzling out · evaporating · dissolving
material, materials, materialize, immaterial, materialism, materially, materialized, materiality, materializes