awakening
/əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/
awakening adjective: rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting. Also the present participle and gerund of awaken.
Adjective
awakening (comparative more awakening, superlative most awakening)
- Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting
- the awakening city
- an awakening discourse
Noun
awakening (plural awakenings)
- The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
- A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.
- Being roused into action or activity.
- When I invited women to decide for themselves which rite of passage to talk or write about, I found that only a few chose their sexual awakening.2007, Abigail Brenner, Women's Rites of Passage, page 25
- The act of becoming aware of something.
Also used as
awakening is also the present participle and gerund of awaken.
awakening meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam
awakening in Hindi
- the act of awaking
- जागना jāgnā
- being roused into action or activity
- जागरण jāgraṇ
awakening in Marathi
- जागृती
awakening in Telugu
- మేల్కొలుపు, మేల్కొల్పడం
awakening in Malayalam
- ഉണർവ്
More languagesFewer languages
- awakening in Odia
- ଜାଗରଣ
- awakening in Nepali
- जागरण
- awakening in Indonesian
- kebangunan, kebangkitan
Examples of awakening in a sentence
- Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.
- The closer you come to full awakening, the more harmoniously your life flows with this cosmometry.
- After awakening to my father’s familiar words, “Wake up, mentlegen” (instead of “gentlemen”), I always felt chilled.
Forms of awakening
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more awakening |
| superlative | most awakening |
| Noun | |
| plural | awakenings |
Origin of awakening
From awaken + -ing.
Words formed from awakening
Phrases with awakening
Questions about awakening
- What does awakening mean?
- Awakening means rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting.
- What is awakening in Hindi?
- Awakening in Hindi is जागना (jāgnā), जागरण (jāgraṇ). See Awakening meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is awakening?
- Awakening can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce awakening?
- Awakening is pronounced /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/.
Words near awakening in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: awakening (page history and authors); awakening (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); awakening (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); awakening (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); awakening (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); awakening (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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