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Inspirational vs Uplifting - What's the difference?

inspirational | uplifting |

As adjectives the difference between inspirational and uplifting

is that inspirational is having the quality to inspire while uplifting is improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.

As a noun uplifting is

the act of something being lifted upward.

inspirational

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the quality to inspire.

    • Derived terms

    * inspirationally

    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