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noun

awakening

the process of becoming aware or conscious

In a sentence

Six example sentences with awakening, each labelled with its topic.

  • The novel closes on a slow awakening, the narrator finally reading her mother's letters with adult eyes.

    Literature

  • The Great Awakening filled fields with preachers and reshaped how colonists thought about authority and their own churches.

    History

  • Therapists describe a gradual awakening in clients who begin noticing the pattern before the argument rather than afterward.

    Psychology

  • Plato's cave describes an awakening: the prisoner turns from the shadows and slowly learns to bear the light.

    Philosophy

  • The flood was a political awakening for the valley, and turnout in the next election doubled.

    Politics

  • For many readers the book was an awakening, the first time they connected a silent spring to the spray truck.

    Environment

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