half-waking en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In a state of not being fully awake.
Francesca gazed round, as we gaze in some half-waking dream, of whose illusion we seem aware, and yet partake.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 111: