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healy-feely

healy-feely adjective: relating to, or believing in, New Age pseudoscience.

Adjective

healy-feely (comparative more healy-feely, superlative most healy-feely)

  1. (derogatory, informal) Relating to, or believing in, New Age pseudoscience.
    • Not to get all healy-feely on you or anything, but I believe that is what they call a “breakthrough” in the therapy game. For one thing, it shed some light on a behavior I'm now working through […]2012, Dan Zevin, he Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up
    • […] much more palatable to me than talking of chakras and clearing bad energy. It sounded more magical, less New Age. Once we settled on a not too healy-feely compromise, we sent out email flyers to everyone we knew.2012, Lone Morch, Seeing Red: A Woman's Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred

Forms of healy-feely

comparativemore healy-feely
superlativemost healy-feely

Origin of healy-feely

From heal + -y (from how New Age pseudoscience often promotes a "healing" narrative to sell products) + feely (from the importance of feelings and emotions in such practices).

Questions about healy-feely

What does healy-feely mean?
Healy-feely means relating to, or believing in, New Age pseudoscience.
What part of speech is healy-feely?
Healy-feely is an adjective.

Words near healy-feely in the dictionary

  1. healthy user biases
  2. healthy worker bias
  3. healthy worker biases
  4. healthyish
  5. Healy
  6. healy-feely
  7. Healyite
  8. Healyites
  9. Healys
  10. heam
  11. heamagglutination

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