uplifting

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English

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Etymology

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From uplift +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: up‧lif‧ting

Adjective

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uplifting (comparative more uplifting, superlative most uplifting)

  1. Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
    Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 159:
      It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite.

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Noun

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uplifting (plural upliftings)

  1. The act of something being lifted upward.