Awakening vs Shock - What's the difference?
awakening | shock | Synonyms |
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)
Sudden, heavy impact.
# (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
# Electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.
# Circulatory shock, a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
# A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance
(mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
To cause to be emotionally shocked.
To give an electric shock.
(obsolete) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
* De Quincey
An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
* Tusser
* Thomson
(commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass)
(obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
* 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
As nouns the difference between awakening and shock
is that awakening is the act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep while shock is sudden, heavy impact.As verbs the difference between awakening and shock
is that awakening is present participle of lang=en while shock is to cause to be emotionally shocked.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.awakening
English
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)shock
English
(wikipedia shock)Alternative forms
* choque (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The train hit the buffers with a great shock .
Derived terms
* bow shock * culture shock * economic shock * electric shock * shock absorber * shock jock * shock mount * shock rock * shock site * shock therapy * shock wave, shockwave * shocker * shocking pink * shockproof * shockumentary * shockvertising * supply shock * technology shock * termination shock * toxic shock syndromeSynonyms
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*Verb
(en verb)- The disaster shocked the world.
- They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
- Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks .
- a head covered with a shock of sandy hair
- When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock (translating the German Spitz).