healing

[ hee-ling ]

/ ˈhi lɪŋ /

curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.

growing sound; getting well; mending.

the act or process of regaining health: a new drug to accelerate healing.

Origin of healing

before 1000; Middle English heelyng (adj.), helynge (noun), Old English hǣlinge (noun). See heal, -ing², -ing¹

heal·ing·ly, adverb self-heal·ing, adjective un·heal·ing, adjective

But the time such a self-healing proceeding would occupy might be ruinous.

Desperate Remedies |Thomas Hardy
He soon hit upon a device to lessen his self-healing labors.

Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyalty |J. W. de Forest
These forces are the self-propelling and self-healing forces of the creative mood.

The Lost Art of Reading |Gerald Stanley Lee

self-healing