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Empowerment vs Upliftment - What's the difference?

empowerment | upliftment |

As nouns the difference between empowerment and upliftment

is that empowerment is the granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group while upliftment is lifting up; elevation or promotion.

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

    upliftment

    English

    Noun

  • Lifting up; elevation or promotion.
  • * 1982 , Mark Loveridge, Laurence Sterne and the argument about design
    • For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'.
  • * 1993 , Amit Goswami, Richard E Reed, Maggie Goswami, The self-aware universe: how consciousness creates the material world
    • We turn to the spirit because the material world has nothing to offer us; we declare spiritual upliftments to be the highest virtues.
  • * 2002 , David Theo Goldberg, The racial state
    • Intermarriage, he apparently thought, would produce racial upliftment , biologically as much as spiritually and culturally, through generational enhancement.