self-healing

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adjective

self-heal·​ing ˌself-ˈhē-liŋ 

: acting or serving to heal or repair oneself or itself: such as

a

: involving or promoting recovery from injury or disease

the body's self-healing ability/process

b

: able to repair physical damage without outside agency

self-healing polymers

Made of sturdy, three-ply construction, the mats are reversible and self-healing, providing a smooth, nonslip work surface and protection for desks, tables, and drawing boards when cutting with scissors …

—Artnews

self-healing

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noun

: the act or process of healing oneself or itself

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University (NC State) has developed a method to create flexible, stretchable electronics capable of self-healing …

—Jackson Schroeder

… he had been working with visual imaging—a form of self-healing many cancer patients attempt.

—Irvin D. Yalom

… the story involves a man suffering from depression who inherits money, and meets a young woman and her eccentric daughter. They go through a journey of self-healing together.

—Nancy Molnar

Examples of self-healing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Do Kwon, the CEO of UST creator Terraform Labs, later misrepresented what actually happened, boasting that the supposedly self-healing algorithm behind UST had restored the peg, the SEC complaint alleges. —Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 17 Feb. 2023

One group of researchers, inspired by the self-healing properties of human skin, recently created an experimental robot that can bounce back from small injuries. —Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1660, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1832, in the meaning defined above