Headful vs Healful - What's the difference?
headful | healful |
An amount of information, emotion, etc. present in the mind.
* 1994 , National Storytelling Association (U.S.), Sheila Dailey, Tales as tools: the power of story in the classroom (page 15)
(genetics) That fills the head of a phage
Tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing.
* 2008 , Bernardo N. De Luca, Mind-Body and Relaxation Research Focus
Full of health or safety; healthy; whole; sound; safe.
* 1892 , Scottish History Society, Publications of the Scottish History Society
* 1913 , Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green, The American federationist
* 1957 , Ray C. Petry, Late medieval mysticism
Affording health or salvation.
* 1844 , John Foxe, George Townsend, The acts and monuments of John Foxe
As adjectives the difference between headful and healful
is that headful is (genetics) that fills the head of a phage while healful is tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing.As a noun headful
is an amount of information, emotion, etc present in the mind.headful
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The headful of stories you gather over a lifetime lets you refold the time and space of your history into meaningful, tellable patterns.
Adjective
(-)healful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- healful remedies
- As for psychogenic death, this will be the case when three supplementary, in this case, healful conditions are fulfilled:
- I believe my Father catched [sic] cold on his journey, tho' he was otherways a very strong healful man, for on his return to Pennicuik a boile broke out between his shoulders, which in a very few days turn'd to a Mortification.
- The public conscience demands that they work under healful conditions, with ample light, without overspceding, and with the same provisions for their safety at their work that the employer would desire for himself were he so employed.
- And, therefore, what is more healful than the sweetness of this sight, or what softer thing may be felt?