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• present participle of heal.

healing

American  

[hee-ling] / ˈhi lɪŋ /

adjective

1. curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.

2. growing sound; getting well; mending.

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noun

healings plural

1. the act or process of regaining health.

   a new drug to accelerate healing.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-healing
  adjective
• unhealing
  adjective
• healingly
  adverb

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• healings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of healing

First recorded before 1000; Middle English heelyng (adjective), helynge (noun); Old English hǣlinge (noun); equivalent to heal + -ing ² for the adjective, heal + -ing ¹ for the noun

Example Sentences

Healing requires empathy, but it also requires clarity about what cannot be bargained away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

How many plunge pools are in the palatial Tierra Santa Healing House, which just opened in the cellar of the Faena New York hotel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

He did not notice that the parking lot of the building next door, home to the Albuquerque School of Healing Arts, was full of Albuquerque city police cars, an armada of black-and-whites.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

They were taking part in a program called Beat the Odds, brought to the school by the Arts & Healing Initiative through a $50,000 fire-aid grant.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

Then Gandalf and Beregond taking up the bier bore it away towards the Houses of Healing, while behind them walked Pippin with downcast head.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien