uplifting

Etymology

adj

  1. Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
    Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting.

noun

  1. The act of something being lifted upward.
    Whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex. 1851, Herman Melville, “Chapter 35, The Mast-Head”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (fiction), page 86
    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[…] 1847, The American Journal of Science and Arts, →ISSN, page 91

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