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Empowerment vs Uplifting - What's the difference?

empowerment | uplifting |

As nouns the difference between empowerment and uplifting

is that empowerment is the granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group while uplifting is the act of something being lifted upward.

As an adjective uplifting is

improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.

empowerment

English

(wikipedia empowerment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group.
  • The process of supporting another person or persons to discover and claim personal power.
  • The state of being empowered (either generally, or specifically).
  • (South Africa) Government programs encouraging advancement of blacks.

    • Derived terms

    * youth empowerment * (South Africa) black economic empowerment

    uplifting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
    • Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something being lifted upward.
  • * (Herman Melville)
    • prodigious long upliftings of their legs
  • * 1847 , The American Journal of Science and Arts (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