awakening
IPA: ʌwˈeɪkʌnɪŋ
noun
- The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
- (religion) A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.
- (figurative) Being roused into action or activity.
- The act of becoming aware of something.
adjective
- Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting
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Examples of "awakening" in Sentences
- As quoted, it did sound like a late-in-term awakening on America’s wars.
- In 1990, he had what he describes as his "awakening", when a psychic in Brighton told him that he was a healer, placed on Earth for a purpose.
- This turning around in the center of the self has been described as an awakening self-love and self-preservation, which allows the smoker to discover a new way of life without smoking.
- In both cases the awakening is a touching of the soul towards something beyond the person's own scale of reference, a conversion to outsized realities which, before the dawn of the poem, remained numbed in familiarity, in repression, in security.
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