unhealing

English

Etymology 1

un- +‎ healing

Adjective

unhealing (not comparable)

1. That does not heal.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.

Etymology 2

Verb

unhealing

1. present participle and gerund of unheal