awakening
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4.4
- noun
- /əˈweɪkənɪŋ/
- According to the ladder paradigm, growth is a process of awakening to what we already are.
- spiritual awakening
- moment of awakening
- awakening of consciousness
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Watch on YouTubeThis is usually how the awakening process happens.
- This is usually how the awakening process happens.
- However, you you can strip out the awakening process, right.
- And it's going to be a spectacular, spectacular awakening, as all Hospice journeys are.
- So it, I'll call it the Kobe Bryant awakening.
- OK, So on the school front, there is an awakening about what is being taught to children in schools.
Examples
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After years of hard work, she finally experienced an awakening to her true potential.
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Because my whole thing now is a path of awakening and healing both.
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OK, So on the school front, there is an awakening about what is being taught to children in schools.
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What people want is the spiritual awakening without doing the hard work to get there.
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Like I was an athlete, you know, And so that was a real awakening moment for me.
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These celebrations are in fact an awakening on the part of the child.
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Each and every action, each and every undertaking, is used as part of the awakening process.
Academic text (1991) -
This is really like intimate part of kind of my spiritual awakening, if you will.
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Like the shaman's calling, the awakening is the beginning of the mystic's path.
Academic text (1990) -
Historians now said that the boycott signaled the awakening of a people's consciousness.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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3.2
Knowing about something or noticing it
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3.6
Becoming suddenly aware of something
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3.4
An event that makes people realize they must act or change what they do
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2.7
Becoming aware of something and understanding it clearly
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6.6
A sudden clear idea that gives you new understanding
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4.4
An experience that makes you see something in a new way
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5.1
Gaining new knowledge and understanding, often from study or experience
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5.5
A sudden moment when you understand or discover something
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4.1
A sudden moment when you clearly understand something after confusion
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3.9
A sudden time when you understand something clearly
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9.9
A sudden moment of deep understanding in Zen Buddhism
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9.9
A sudden moment in a story or play when a character understands something important about themselves
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9.9
A sudden real moment of deep understanding during meditation
Antonyms
How Aware
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Awakening comes from the verb awake, which means 'to wake up' and is used in a mental sense too. So an awakening is a moment when you 'wake up' to a new idea or see something important.