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Awakening vs Reviving - What's the difference?

awakening | reviving |

As verbs the difference between awakening and reviving

is that awakening is while reviving is .

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 noun awakening

is the act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.

awakening

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Adjective

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  • 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 .

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    • reviving

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