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Uplifting vs Upbuilding - What's the difference?

uplifting | upbuilding |

As an adjective uplifting

is improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.

As a noun uplifting

is the act of something being lifted upward.

As a verb upbuilding is

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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

    upbuilding

    English

    Verb

    (head)