realization

noun

1 the growing realization that many of these diseases were intimately related to people's lifestyles:

awareness, understanding, comprehension, consciousness, apprehension, cognizance, appreciation, recognition, perception, discernment.

2 the realization of our dreams surpassed our wildest expectations:

actualization, fulfillment, achievement, accomplishment, attainment, bringing to fruition, bringing into being, consummation, effecting;

rare effectuation, reification.