Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Realization of something desired or worked for; accomplishment: labor finally coming to fruition.
- n. Enjoyment derived from use or possession.
- n. The condition of bearing fruit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A coming into fruit or fulfilment; attainment of anything desired; realization of results: as, the fruition of one's labors or hopes.
Wiktionary
- n. The fulfillment of something worked for.
- n. The enjoyment derived from a possession.
- n. The condition of bearing fruit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the condition of bearing fruit
- n. enjoyment derived from use or possession
- n. something that is made real or concrete
Etymologies
- Erroneously from fruit (though now standard usage) (Wiktionary)
- Middle English fruicioun, from Old French fruicion, from Late Latin fruitiō, fruitiōn-, enjoyment, from Latin fruitus, past participle of fruī, to enjoy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The only way you'll ever see long term projects such as the VSE or SBSP come to fruition is to hand NASA lock stock and barrel to the Congress.”
“Cool stuff indeed, but the probability that any of it comes to fruition is worth analyzing after the jump.”
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“His only hope of coming to true fruition is to get to America, where there is insurmountable opportunity.”
“I have a simple business model that, though unlikely to come to fruition, is simply too good to be overlooked.”
“What about encouraging students to become politically aware and involved, to set personal and academic goals and to take responsibility for doing what they can to bring those goals to fruition is socialist????”
“Have experienced too much to think that you do not have imperfections and bad days, but what you have accomplished with unwavering hard work as a loving husband and father while bringing your dream of owning a vineyard and producing your own wines to fruition is no small feat but a tribute to a tough, loving, wise, and devoted man.”
“That their predictions have not yet come to fruition is an anomaly of economics. not technology.”
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“Him hereafter, as by the conferring cause, when hope shall be swallowed up in fruition [Pearson].”
“And now, as we see those fears removed, and those hopes reaching fruition, is it too soon, even on this day of humiliation and sadness, in view of all that has been done, -- in view of all that has been gained, and of all that has been”
“Perfect fruition is reserved for the land of our rest; asking and receiving are the comfort of the land of our pilgrimage.”
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Tweets
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Telofy “Some days passed before I could rid my thoughts of Thecla of certain impressions belonging to the false Thecla who had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer May 16, 2010
qroqqa This changed its meaning in the nineteenth century. Although it is related to 'fruit', the ultimate root of both is Latin fru- "enjoy", and English 'fruition' originally meant "enjoyment". In the 1800s it shifted to its present meaning of "completion, fulfilment" in expressions such as 'come to fruition'.
I think it is seldom used in the supposedly literal sense "fruiting", but this was presumably part of the bridging meaning: after your orchard fruits you have its fruition. Dec 24, 2008
brtom ... and equally enjoying
God-like fruition, quitted all to save
A World from utter loss ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III Dec 18, 2006