awakening vs rousing

awakening

noun
  • Being roused into action or activity. 

  • A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual. 

  • The act of becoming aware of something. 

  • The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. 

adj
  • Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting 

rousing

noun
  • The act by which somebody or something is roused. 

adj
  • That rouses or excites. 

How often have the words awakening and rousing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )