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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

Gil never went over and introduced himself to Sarah, co-owner of the Albuquerque School of Healing Arts, which shared a lot line with Quirky.

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

So at last Faramir and Éowyn and Meriadoc were laid in beds in the Houses of Healing; and there they were tended well.

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