The meaning of EDIFYING is instructive or informative in a way that improves the mind or character. How to use edifying in a sentence.

EDIFYING definition: instructive or beneficial, especially morally or spiritually; uplifting. See examples of edifying used in a sentence.

To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement. [Middle English edifien, from Old French edifier, from Late Latin aedificāre, to instruct spiritually, from …

Being left in a bar all afternoon with a load of football fans is not the most edifying of experiences.

Definition of edifying adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

If you describe something as edifying, you mean that it benefits you in some way, for example by teaching you about something.

Anything edifying is enlightening. Edifying things uplift people intellectually or morally and help them learn. Good literature, art, and music are edifying.