refreshing

Etymology

adj

1. That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
   Every forecast or guess has one refreshing quality: one will be right and the rest will be wrong. June 20, 2022, Charles Hugh Smith, The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess
2. Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.
   The polarization system has a refreshing rate that is twice the refreshing rate of the corresponding shutter system. 2003, John Wang, Data Mining: Opportunities and Challenges, page 74

noun

1. The action of refresh; refreshment given or received.
   Notwithstanding these powerful refreshings of divine grace, the ways of Zion continued to mourn generally, throughout the New-England churches; iniquity abounded, and the hearts of many waxed cold […] 1821, Frederick Butler, A Complete History of the United States of America
2. That which gives refreshment.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of refresh