galvanizing

adjective

gal·​va·​niz·​ing ˈgal-və-ˌnī-ziŋ 

: stimulating in a way that provokes action or effort

… makes it easy to see he isn't the next Jordan, if only because he lacks the galvanizing effect on teammates that MJ had.

—Bill Simmons

The causes of today's discontent … are less galvanizing because they are less susceptible to summation in pithy slogans like "stop the war" and "law and order."

—George F. Will

galvanizingly adverb

… he was still known to the world by the clipped, galvanizingly dramatic name under which he had emerged as the country's most prominent advocate of black nationalism: Malcolm X.

—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Examples of galvanizing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In fact, this was a galvanizing moment in my relationship with Brian Grazer that ultimately would lead us to launch a company. —Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025

Mamdani’s victory in the financial capital of the world was seen as a galvanizing moment for the progressive wing of the party and a sign of an insurgent mood among its base. —Solcyré Burga, Time, 10 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for galvanizing

• advertising
• amortizing
• analyzing
• anodizing
• appetizing
• atomizing
• authorising
• authorizing
• carbonizing
• carburizing
• catalyzing
• centralising