nurturance

American  

[nur-cher-uhns] / ˈnɜr tʃər əns /

noun

1. warm and affectionate physical and emotional support and care.

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Other Word Forms

• nonnurturant adjective
• nurturant adjective

Etymology

Origin of nurturance

First recorded in 1935–40; nurture + -ance

Example Sentences

These campaigns drew upon and reinforced the intimate associations between milk, the Midwestern landscape, and maternal nurturance and child development.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2021

A bucket brigade of nurturance spanning the heartland — Wisconsin to Ohio to his home in Kentucky.

From Salon • May 9, 2020

And when it comes to sociable AI, nurturance is the killer app: We nurture what we love, and we love what we nurture.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2017

Lori Birrell, the university’s historical manuscripts librarian, described Anthony’s nurturance of Avery as “a side of Anthony that we don’t really see in a lot of scholarly work on this movement.”

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2014

After a few days at Hearth- side, I feel the service ethic kick in like a shot of oxytocin, the nurturance hormone.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich