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healing

healing

109 2.6
That helps the body or mind become healthy again
  • adjective
  • /ˈhiːlɪŋ/
: sanador
  • Thank you for that healing and broad answer.

It was amazing, deep, healing, sexy and fun.

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Examples

  • Spending time in nature has a wonderfully healing influence on my mood.

  • It's been the most healing experience of my life.

  • And that was so healing in so many ways.

  • But it's just been the most healing experience of my life.

  • Let's talk about the healing power of nature.

  • It was incredibly healing and valuable for me.

  • And there's there's something healing about those pictures.

  • After my surgery, I focused on the healing process to regain my strength.

  • Meditation can provide a healing effect on both the mind and body.

Synonyms

therapeutic
vshealing
86 5.2

Helping a person feel better physically or mentally

focuses on the quality of curing or restoring rather than treatment relation
restorative
vshealing
13 5.4

Helping someone feel better and stronger

emphasizes actual curing or health restoration rather than general wellbeing
curative
vshealing
9 6.2

Able to cure disease and help someone get better

is the general quality of curing or restoring rather than naming ability
remedial
vshealing
6 5.3

Helps heal a sickness or an injury

is the broader quality of curing or restoring, not only an intended remedy
recuperative
vshealing
  • Specialized
2 6.9

Helping someone get better after illness or tiredness

focuses on curing or restoring health itself rather than the recovery process
reparatory
vshealing
1 8.2

Helps restore health or strength

is more specifically about curing or restoring health than general repair
restitutive
vshealing
1 7.9

Making someone feel healthy and strong again

is about curing or restoring health specifically rather than general wellness
sanative
vshealing
  • Archaic
9.9

A thing that heals or helps a person get better after illness

is a general quality of curing or restoring health rather than specific power

Antonyms

158 2.6

Causing damage to people, animals or things

8 7.0

Can harm people, animals, or plants

Compounds

A way people try to cure sickness with prayer and belief instead of medicine

A change that helps someone feel better or get better

wound healing
  • Specialized
1 3.5

The body repairs and regrows skin and tissue after an injury

1 3.4

A plant whose leaves are used as medicine, in tea, or in food

electric healing
  • Specialized
1 7.6

A medical treatment that uses electricity to help injured nerves and muscles

electrical healing
  • Specialized
1 6.3

To use small electric currents on the body to help heal injuries or nerve problems

How Healing

curative
9 6.2
restorative
2 6.3
healing
109 2.6
soothing
75 2.9

Surface Forms

healing positive

Morphology

healing = heal (transparent) = heal + ing

The adjective is a straightforward present-participial/derivational use of 'heal' indicating having the quality of curing.

Etymology

Healing comes from the old English verb heal, which meant 'to make whole'. The same idea is in the word health, so something described as healing helps make a person healthy or whole again.