dawning
Light slowly appearing
Dawning is the beginning of daylight, when the sun first appears: We watched the dawning of a new day.
More often it describes the start of something abstract—an era, understanding, or awareness: the dawning of the computer age, the dawning of civilization.
When something dawns on you, you gradually realize it: It finally dawned on me that she wasn't coming back.
Morning's first light
- first lightEarliest morning brightness
- sunupMorning's first light
- break of dayMorning's earliest moment
- auroraAtmospheric light display
horizon · morning · glow · cockcrow · dew · glimmer · radiance · golden
Sudden profound insight
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
clarity · comprehension · revelation · awareness · recognition · aha · eureka · breakthrough
Act of starting
- inceptionFounding moment
- onsetStarting point of something
- birthComing into the world
- emergenceComing into existence
genesis · advent · threshold · outset · initiation · nascence · infancy · origin
Newly made, not stale
- newRecently created or begun
- pristinePure and untouched
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- revitalizationRestoring vigor or vitality
resurgence · revival · rejuvenation · blossoming · flourishing · promising · hopeful · bright
daybreak
Morning's first light
- first lightEarliest morning brightness
- sunupMorning's first light
- break of dayMorning's earliest moment
aurora · horizon · morning · glow · cockcrow · dew · glimmer · radiance · golden · amber
epiphany
Sudden profound insight
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- understandingMental comprehension of something
insight · clarity · comprehension · revelation · awareness · recognition · aha · eureka · breakthrough · discernment
commencement
Act of starting
emergence · genesis · advent · threshold · outset · initiation · nascence · infancy · origin · inauguration
fresh
Newly made, not stale
revitalization · resurgence · revival · rejuvenation · blossoming · flourishing · promising · hopeful · bright · emerging
- emergenceemergence, appearing, surfacing, self-organization, arising
- discoveryfind, finding, discovery, discover, finding out
- futureforthcoming, upcoming, coming, impending, imminent
- understandingunderstand, comprehend, grasp, fathom, follow
- dawnsunrise, daybreak, first light, sunup, dayspring
- old time wordsfortnight, twelvemonth, yore, erstwhile, ere
- dawning onGradually becoming understood