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Nurturant

//ˈnəːtʃəɹənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    providing physical and emotional care and nourishment wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From nurture + -ant.

Etymology 2

From nurture + -ant.

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