awakening
rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
the act of awaking from sleep.
a revival of interest or attention.
a recognition, realization, or coming into awareness of something: a rude awakening to the disagreeable facts.
a renewal of interest in religion, especially in a community; a revival.
Origin of awakening
1Other words from awakening
- a·wak·en·ing·ly, adverb
- re·a·wak·en·ing, noun
- un·a·wak·en·ing, adjective
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How to use awakening in a sentence
The essence of OZYMA lies in the awakening of the seven chakras, or the energy points of the body.
I was not in the market for any sort of a scientific awakening.
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Fortunately, the fitness industry is trying to accommodate this mass awakening.
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Instead, he found that they developed erratically and sometimes experienced periods of dormancy before reawakening.
But there are signs that the grassroots operation is reawakening in a big way.
We seemed to keep equal pace with the reawakening of the vegetable world northwards, and even to go faster than it.
The Backwoodsman | VariousThere nature is least under man's restraint and gives the first signs of her reawakening.
In New England Fields and Woods | Rowland E. RobinsonIt was pity for him, her old genuine love for him reawakening, that made her at last rouse herself to tell him the truth.
The Making of a Prig | Evelyn SharpBefore this, however, there were symptoms of the reawakening of a dormant idea.
The Pictorial Press | Mason JacksonThe imagination of the detective found a way of reawakening the interest.
The House of the Combrays | G. le Notre
British Dictionary definitions for awakening
/ (əˈweɪkənɪŋ, əˈweɪknɪŋ) /
the start of a feeling or awareness in a person: a picture of an emotional awakening
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