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Uplifting vs Advancement - What's the difference?

uplifting | advancement |

As nouns the difference between uplifting and advancement

is that uplifting is the act of something being lifted upward while advancement is the act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.

As an adjective uplifting

is improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.

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

    advancement

    English

    Alternative forms

    * advancemente * advauncement * advauncemente

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
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  • An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
  • (legal) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

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