Definition of "waking"

waking

/ˈweɪkɪŋ/

adjective
comparative more waking, superlative most waking
1. Occurring during wakefulness.
  Quotations
  The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.
  1855 March, Caroline Chesebro’, “Kit”, in Graham’s Magazine, volume 46, number 3, page 230
  Counting occupied my every waking thought.
  a. 2000, “Alice” (possible pseudonym), quoted in Fred Penzel, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well, Oxford University Press (2000), page page 263
  It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”
  2003, Moshe Gelbein (translator), Chaim Friedlander (author), quoted in Moshe Gelbein (translator), Meir Munk (author), Searching for Comfort: Coping with Grief, Mesorah Publications, page 80
verb
1. present participle and gerund of wake
noun
plural wakings
1. The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.
  Quotations
  […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.
  1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, page 144