Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not capable of being healed; incurable.

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  • adjective That cannot be healed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ healable

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Examples

  • "It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted."

    Dalai Lama: 50 Million People Displaced Around The World The Toronto Star 2010

  • The only hard part is when you actually arrive at the planet with the lever, which — I wish someone would explain this to me — is inevitably made from rough-hewn wood, so the splinter-effect another technical term plays a big role in the bumps and bruises and mysterious unhealable cuts.

    Self-Destruction, Vol. 1 James Greer 2011

  • "It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted."

    Dalai Lama: 50 Million People Displaced Around The World The Toronto Star 2010

  • "It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted."

    Dalai Lama: 50 Million People Displaced Around The World The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • "It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted."

    Dalai Lama: 50 Million People Displaced Around The World The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • "It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted."

    Dalai Lama: 50 Million People Displaced Around The World The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • "It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted."

    Dalai Lama: 50 Million People Displaced Around The World The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Time was, the political left disdained America as fragile -- capitalism had mortal "contradictions," racial and ethnic divisions were unhealable, etc.

    It Is A Bad Time For Jeremiahs 2008

  • I just think it is a mistake, precisely because it feeds the phenomenon of the monster pedophile, to frame child sexual abuse as an unhealable trauma.

    Pedophilia Fears Contributed to Child’s Death 2006

  • No state of sin is absolutely unhealable until God hath variously dealt with men by his Spirit.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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