How to say "waking" in Japanese

• 目覚めめざめCommon
  nounCovers waking or waking up, and by extension awakening; the neutral word for the moment or experience of waking. Typical in talk of one's morning waking or a spiritual awakening.
  彼かれは人々ひとびとを無知むちから目覚めざめさせようとした。↗

  He tried to awake people from their ignorance.
• 寝起きねおきCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbCovers waking and getting up, focusing on rising from bed rather than the awakening itself; often carries a nuance of how one gets up, as in waking up in a bad mood.

Use 「目覚め」 for waking up or awakening as a moment or experience, and 「寝起き」 for the act of getting up from bed, often implying how one wakes or rises.

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• 目覚めめざめwaking
• 寝起きねおきwaking