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Meaning of healy-feely | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Relating to, or believing in, New Age pseudoscience.

derogatory, informal

Examples

“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 […]”
“[…] 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.”
“As anyone who has been around the healy-feely crowd long enough knows, the second Noble Truth of Buddhism states that the cause of all suffering is attachments.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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