Healing vs. Soothing — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Healing and Soothing
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Healing
Healing is the process of the restoration of health from an unbalanced, diseased, damaged or unvitalized organism. The profession of nursing has been traditionally concerned with matters of healing, whereas historically the profession of medicine has been concerned with curing.With physical damage or disease suffered by an organism, healing involves the repair of living tissue(s), organs and the biological system as a whole and resumption of (normal) functioning.
Soothing
Tending to soothe.
Healing
To restore to health or soundness; cure
Healed the sick patient.
Soothing
Tending to soothe.
Soothing music
Healing
To ease or relieve (emotional distress)
Only time can heal her grief.
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Soothing
Giving relief.
A soothing ointment
Healing
To set right; repair
Healed the rift between us.
Soothing
Freeing from fear or anxiety.
Soothing words
Healing
To recover from an illness or injury; return to health.
Soothing
Present participle of soothe
Healing
To experience relief from emotional distress
Gave the grieving family time to heal.
Soothing
Present participle of sooth
Healing
To be relieved or eliminated
The rift between them finally healed.
Soothing
The act by which somebody is soothed.
Healing
The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves.
Soothing
Affording physical relief;
A soothing ointment for her sunburn
Healing
An act of healing, as by a faith healer.
Soothing
Freeing from fear and anxiety
Healing
The psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems.
Healing
Present participle of heal
Healing
Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.
Here healing dews and balms abound.
Healing
The natural process by which the body repairs itself
Healing
Tending to cure or restore to health;
Curative powers of herbal remedies
Her gentle healing hand
Remedial surgery
A sanative environment of mountains and fresh air
A therapeutic agent
Therapeutic diets
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