uplifting

English

Etymology

From uplift +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: up‧lif‧ting

Adjective

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.

Translations

improving the mood

• Czech: povznášející
• Finnish: innostava (fi), innoittava
• French: qui met de bonne humeur, qui remonte le moral
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppløftende (no)

• Polish: pocieszający

Noun

uplifting (plural upliftings)

1. The act of something being lifted upward.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, “Chapter 35, The Mast-Head”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (fiction), page 86:

     Whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex.

   • 1847, The American Journal of Science and Arts, →ISSN, page 91:

     The borders of large subsiding areas sooner or later experiencing deep fissurings and extensive upliftings through the tension or horizontal force of the subsiding crust […]

Translations

act of lifting something up

• Esperanto: levo