awakening

Speech parts

1. awakening - Noun

2. awakening - Adjective

3. awakening - Verb

Meaning

of Awaken

Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn.

The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wakening waking up renaissance nirvana rouse enlightenment reveille renascence moving birth inspiration revival trigger wake resurrection

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Antonyms

downing killing destruction sleep breaking shooting

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Hypernyms

arousal rousing

Hyponyms

reveille

Phrases with the word

active awakening awakening devotion awakening meditation last awakening tree of awakening

Examples

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France

Is death the last step No, it is the final awakening. Walter Scott

All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses. Augustus De Morgan

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word. Eckhart Tolle

The awakening of a giant shakes the world. Arabic Proverb

True teaching is not accumulation of knowledge, it is an awakening of consciousness. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

awakenedness awakener awakeness awakening devotion awakening meditation awakeningly