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.

Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above