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waking

waking

3 2.5
The time when you are not asleep
  • noun
  • /ˈweɪkɪŋ/
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  • Sleepiness Affects Waking Performance, Vigilance, and Mood.
  • frequent wakings at night

So things are happening during waking that allows wakefulness to be waking.

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Examples

  • Our son is similar with respect to naps and morning wakings.

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  • We did start responding to cries in the night too fast, and the wakings got worse for about a week.

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  • What what should I spend my waking hours learning?

  • So sleep brain waves and waking brain waves are different.

  • But Jesus, don't spend most of your waking hours feeling like a victim.

  • It is every day, all waking hours.

  • But I mean, the average person spends many waking hours staring at screens right now.

  • I want to spend every waking minute of my life with Shadow Kumara.

  • During my waking hours, I enjoy reading and exploring new ideas.

  • She spends her waking time volunteering at the local shelter.

Synonyms

wakefulness
vswaking
4 4.7

A period when you are not sleeping, often because you cannot fall asleep at night

is neutral about alertness or inability to sleep
upness
vswaking
  • Informal
9.6

Being awake when you would normally be asleep

is the general state regardless of expected sleep time

Antonyms

asleep
∞ 1.0

Not awake and not aware

sleeping
353 1.0

A time when you are not awake

Compounds

waking up
95 1.0

A time when you stop sleeping and become awake

How Awake

vigilance
33 5.2
alertness
14 2.9
wakefulness
4 4.7
waking
3 2.5

Surface Forms

waking singular
wakings plural

Morphology

waking = wake (transparent) = wake + ing

A regular nominalization (gerund) formed from the verb 'wake'; the meaning 'the state or act of being awake' is directly derived.

Etymology

Waking comes from the old English verb wacan, which meant 'to wake' or 'rise'. Think of the common words wake and awake—they all point to being not asleep, so waking as a noun is the state of being awake.