Realizer

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An individual who brings an idea, plan, or project into reality or concrete form
2. A person responsible for turning concepts or designs into actual results or products
3. One who causes something abstract or theoretical to become tangible or effective

Etymology: The verb "realize" was built from "real" plus the suffix "-ize," and "realizer" is simply that verb with the agent suffix "-er" added at the end. "Real" came into English from Old French "reel," itself descended from Late Latin "reālis," and that word grew from Latin "rēs," meaning "thing" or "matter." The "-ize" ending traces through Late Latin "-izāre" and Greek "-izein," a verb-making suffix that English adopted through Middle French "-iser" and Middle English "-isen." The original sense of "realize" was literal: to make something real or actual, to bring a thing into existence. Its later meaning of grasping a fact in the mind, becoming aware of something, is a shift from making a thing real in the world to making it real in one's understanding. The ending "-er" comes from Old English "-ere," which denoted a person who carries out an action. So a realizer is, at its simplest, someone who makes an idea or plan actual.

Synonyms: understander, comprehender, apprehender