Healy-feely
adj, slang
adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Relating to, or believing in, New Age pseudoscience. derogatory, informal
"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 […]"
Example
More 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 […]"
Etymology
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).
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