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Awakened vs Awakening - What's the difference?

awakened | awakening |

As verbs the difference between awakened and awakening

is that awakened is (awake) while awakening is .

As adjectives the difference between awakened and awakening

is that awakened is having been woken up while awakening is rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn.

As a noun awakening is

the act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.

awakened

English

Verb

(head)
  • (awake)
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened , and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having been woken up.
  • :
  • Aroused or activated.
  • :

    • awakening

    English

    Adjective

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

    • Noun

    (en 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.
  • * 2007 , Abigail Brenner, Women's Rites of Passage (page 25)
    • 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 .

    Verb

    (head)