Awakening vs Realization - What's the difference?
awakening | realization |
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.
(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)
The act of realizing; an act of figuring out or becoming aware.
The act of realizing; the act of making real.
The result of an artistic effort.
As nouns the difference between awakening and realization
is that awakening is the act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep while realization is the act of realizing; an act of figuring out or becoming aware.As an adjective 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 verb awakening
is .awakening
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Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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)realization
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Alternative forms
* realisationNoun
(en noun)- He came to the startling realization that he had never really known.
- He did not stay around long enough to see the realization of the idea.
- The realization of the plan took several years.
- The painter's realization of her concept was breathtaking.