AWAKENING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does awakening mean? 

• AWAKENING (noun)
  The noun AWAKENING has 1 sense:

1. the act of waking

  Familiarity information: AWAKENING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AWAKENING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of waking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

awakening; wakening; waking up

Context example:

it was the waking up he hated most

Hypernyms ("awakening" is a kind of...):

arousal; rousing (the act of arousing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "awakening"):

reveille (a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise)

Derivation:

awaken (stop sleeping)

awaken (cause to become awake or conscious)

 Context examples 

He shook his head, and with a deep sign as of awakening, caught his breath.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hans sighed as though awakening from sleep. The clang of the plate had aroused them to life in a new world.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The sun had come back, and all the awakening Northland world was calling to him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Insomnia symptoms included difficulty initiating sleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, early-morning awakening, and non-restorative sleep.

(Insomnia: Heart Attack, Stroke Risk, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Angina occurs on walking or climbing stairs rapidly, walking uphill, walking or climbing stairs after meals, or in cold, in wind, or under emotional stress, or only during the few hours after awakening.

(Canadian Cardiovascular Society Grading Scale Class, NCI Thesaurus)

And amid all this bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening life, under the blazing sun and through the soft-sighing breezes, like wayfarers to death, staggered the two men, the woman, and the huskies.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I beg your pardon, miss, he said, awakening from his abstraction, but, however submissive to you, I have my position, though a servant.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A sleep disorder characterized by the repeated occurrence of frightening dreams which precipitate awakenings from sleep; on awakening, the individual becomes fully alert and oriented and has detailed recall of the nightmare, which usually involves imminent danger or extreme embarrassment to the individual.

(Nightmare Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A subtype of circadian rhythm sleep disorder in which the individual exhibits a persistent pattern of late sleep onset and late awakening, which results from an endogenous sleep-wake cycle that is delayed relative to the societal norm.

(Delayed Sleep Phase Type Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Or maybe that was a dream, too, and the awakening would be the changing of the watches, when he would drop down out of his bunk in the lurching forecastle and go up on deck, under the tropic stars, and take the wheel and feel the cool tradewind blowing through his flesh.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)