nurturance

noun
/ˈnəːtʃəɹəns/UK

Etymology

From nurture + -ance.

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

Definitions

  1. The provision of physical and emotional care.

    • Rousseauist responsiveness and nurturance automatically flip over into their opposites.
  2. The act of supporting, fostering.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nurturance. 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