Tending to rise upward or moving in an upward direction; characterized by ascending motion or progress.
From Latin ascendere (to climb) with the suffix -ive (tending to or having the quality of). First used in English in the 18th century to describe upward-moving things.
In music and phonetics, 'ascensive' describes pitch or tone that rises—it's the opposite of 'descensive'—and linguists use it to study how languages like Mandarin use pitch to change meaning.
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