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Awaking vs Awakening - What's the difference?

awaking | awakening |

As nouns the difference between awakening and awaking

is that awakening is the act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep while awaking is an act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.

As verbs the difference between awakening and awaking

is that awakening is present participle of lang=en while awaking is present participle of lang=en.

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.

awaking

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.

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    awakening

    English

    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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