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• IPA(key): /ˈhiːlɪŋ/
• Homophone: heeling
• Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ

From Middle English heelinge, helynge, from Old English hǣling (“healing”), from Proto-Germanic *hailingō (“healing”), from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to heal”), equivalent to heal +‎ -ing. Cognate with West Frisian hieling (“healing”), Dutch heling (“healing”), German Heilung (“healing; cure”).

healing (countable and uncountable, plural healings)

1. The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves.
2. An act of healing, as by a faith healer.
3. The psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems.

• chakra healing

• crystal healing

• faith healing

• healing art

• healing blade

• healing crisis

• healing leaf

• healing lodge

• mind-healing

• overhealing

• self-healing

• spiritual healing

• underhealing

• heal

process of regeneration — see also recovery

• Afrikaans: genesing
• Arabic: شِفَاء m (šifāʔ)
• Bulgarian: лечение (bg) n (lečenie), излекуване (bg) n (izlekuvane)
• Czech: hojení (cs) n
• Dutch: heling (nl) f, genezing (nl) f
• French: guérison (fr) f
• German: Heilung (de) f
• Greek:
  Ancient Greek: ἄκεσις (ákesis), ἀκή f (akḗ), ἴασις f (íasis)
• Hungarian: gyógyulás (hu)
• Irish: slánú m
• Italian: guarigione (it) f
• Judeo-Italian: גוּוַארִימֵינְטוֹ m (guwaʔrimenəṭo /⁠guarimento⁠/)
• Kyrgyz: шыпаа (ky) (şıpaa)
• Latin: sanatio f
• Occitan: garison (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: балованиѥ n (balovanije)
  Glagolitic: ⰱⰰⰾⱁⰲⰰⱀⰻⱗ (balovaniję)
• Polish: gojenie n, leczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: cura (pt) f
• Russian: исцеле́ние (ru) n (iscelénije), излече́ние (ru) n (izlečénije), лече́ние (ru) n (lečénije), заживле́ние (ru) n (zaživlénije) (of a wound)
• Spanish: curación (es) f
• Swahili: kuponya, uponyaji (sw)
• Swedish: läkning (sv) c
• Unami: kikeokàn

From Middle English heelyng, equivalent to heal +‎ -ing.

healing

1. present participle and gerund of heal

• healingly
• nonhealing
• unhealing

Unadapted borrowing from English healing.

• IPA(key): /ˈhiːliŋ/

healing

1. (slang) to go on holiday; to go on vacation
   Udah stres mikirin hasil TKA, gua mau healing dulu.
   I'm already stressed thinking about the results of the TKA exam, I wanna go on vacation first.

Borrowed from English healing.

healing c

1. faith healing
   Synonyms: helande, helbrägdagörelse

• “healing”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “healing”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)