healy-feely
adjEtymology 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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Derogatory, Informal Relating to, or believing in, New Age pseudoscience.
- 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 […]2012, Dan Zevin, he Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up:
- […] 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.2012, Lone Morch, Seeing Red: A Woman's Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred:
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- 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.2018, Paul M. Cole, POW/MIA Accounting: Volume I:
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