nurturant

adj
/ˈnəːtʃəɹənt/UK

Etymology

From nurture + -ant.

  1. derived from nutrire
  2. derived from nutritura
  3. derived from norriture
  4. inherited from norture
  5. suffixed as nurturant — “nurture + ant

Definitions

  1. That provides nourishment

    That provides nourishment; nurturing.

    • Go to readings, read books like this anthology, read the publications, become nurturant and enriched and educated about what's going on around them, form writing support groups.
    • In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.
  2. That which nurtures

    That which nurtures; a nurturing factor or influence.

    • By removing one or another aspect from an organism's visual environment, one can determine the essential visual nurturants. The latter are then considered the basic visual-environmental determinants of the development of visual perception.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nurturant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA