Fruition

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fru=i=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Fruition, n. [OF. fruition, L. fruitio, enjoyment, fr. L. frui, p. p. fruitus, to use or enjoy. See Fruit, n.].

 Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.  [1913 Webster]
"Where I may have fruition of her love."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Fruition, n.
1 a the bearing of fruit. b the production of results.
2 the realization of aims or hopes.
3 enjoyment.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. LL fruitio -onis f. frui enjoy, erron. assoc. with FRUIT

THESAURUS

Fruition

accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, actualization, amusement, animal pleasure, attainment, bearing, bodily pleasure, carnal delight, carrying out, comfort, completion, consummation, content, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, delectation, delight, discharge, dispatch, ease, effectuation, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, euphoria, execution, fait accompli, forepleasure, fructification, fruiting, fulfillment, fun, gratification, great satisfaction, gusto, hearty enjoyment, implementation, intellectual pleasure, joie de vivre, joy, joyance, keen pleasure, kicks, luxury, materialization, maturation, maturity, mission accomplished, perfection, performance, physical pleasure, pleasure, production, quiet pleasure, realization, relish, ripeness, satisfaction, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, success, sweetness of life, titillation, voluptuousness, well-being, yielding, zest

ROGET THESAURUS

Fruition

Pleasure

N pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition, oblectation, delectation, delection, relish, zest, gusto, satisfaction, complacency, well-being, good, snugness, comfort, ease, cushion, sans souci, without worry, mind at ease, joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine, cheerfulness, treat, refreshment, amusement, luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, happiness, felicity, bliss, beatitude, beautification, enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy, summum bonum, paradise, elysium, third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness, hedonics, hedonism, honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time, Dixie, Dixie's land, Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone, pleased, not sorry, glad, gladsome, pleased as Punch, happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful, hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced, enchanted, enraptures, enravished, transported, fascinated, captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing, ecstatic, beatic, painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless, happily, with pleasure, with glee, one's heart leaping with joy, a wilderness of sweets, I wish you all the joy that you can wish, jour de ma vie, joy ruled the day and love the night, joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt, oh happiness, our being's end and aim!, there is a pleasure that is born of pain, throned on highest bliss, vedi Napoli e poi muori, zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit, the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.