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Exhilarating vs Uplifting - What's the difference?

exhilarating | uplifting |

As adjectives the difference between exhilarating and uplifting

is that exhilarating is refreshingly thrilling while uplifting is improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.

As a verb exhilarating

is .

As a noun uplifting is

the act of something being lifted upward.

exhilarating

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Refreshingly thrilling.
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    Synonyms

    * cheering * gladdening * stimulating * enlivening * See also

    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