nurturant

comparative more nurturant · superlative most nurturant

1. human sciencesThat provides nourishment; nurturing.First known use 20th c.

   In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

   1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae

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   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.

   1981 August 1, Maida Tilchen, Joan Larkin, Elly Bulkin, “Getting to Know Who We Are: The Lesbian Poetry Tradition”, in Gay Community News, page 9

plural nurturants

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.

   1975, Austin Herbert Riesen, The developmental neuropsychology of sensory deprivation, page 171