Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being healed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being healed.

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  • adjective Receptive to treatment or cure.

Etymologies

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heal +‎ -able

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Examples

  • but it is hearing stories like the one you just told me - about the pay off of "healable" hurts vs toxic resentment which make my soul nod it's head and my heart feel lighter thankyou Brandibutter you are delicious

    authenticity faerian 2009

  • This is complex and deep, but definitely resolvable, healable, transformable.

    Judith Barr: Recession Regression? Not Again! Judith Barr 2011

  • One senses, in Israeli rage, unhealed wounds that may well be un-healable.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • This is complex and deep, but definitely resolvable, healable, transformable.

    Judith Barr: Recession Regression? Not Again! Judith Barr 2011

  • One senses, in Israeli rage, unhealed wounds that may well be un-healable.

    Sister Loss Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • Aren't we looking at divisions that are simply not healable because a bunch of people go to the polls?

    CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2004 2004

  • And since the same thing which is healable is also receptive of disease, it depends on whether it is moved qua healable or qua liable to disease whether the motion is towards health or towards disease.

    On the Heavens 2002

  • Thus to ask why fire moves upward and earth downward is the same as to ask why the healable, when moved and changed qua healable, attains health and not whiteness; and similar questions might be asked concerning any other subject of aletion.

    On the Heavens 2002

  • This is complex and deep, but definitely resolvable, healable, transformable.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Judith Barr 2011

  • As soon as we receive the photo and the details, we sense the AURA to find out whether the patient is in a healable stage.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

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