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say it: HEE-ling
healing is a noun and adjective meaning "the natural process by which the body repairs itself". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the natural process by which the body repairs itself
tending to cure or restore to health
“curative powers of herbal remedies”
“her gentle healing hand”
“remedial surgery”
“a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air”
“a therapeutic agent”
“therapeutic diets”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for healing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.