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n. Something that nourishes; sustenance.

n. The act of bringing up.

n. Biology The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism.

v. To nourish; feed.

v. To educate; train.

v. To help grow or develop; cultivate: nurture a student's talent.

n. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.

n. That which nourishes; food; diet.

n. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.

v. to nourish or nurse

n. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.

n. That which nourishes; food; diet.

v. To feed; to nourish.

v. To educate; to bring or train up.

n. The act of supplying with nourishment; the act or process of cultivating or promoting growth.

n. Upbringing; training; discipline; instruction; education; breeding, especially good breeding.

n. Nourishment; that which nourishes; food; diet.

n. Synonyms Training, Discipline, etc. (see instruction), schooling.

To feed; nourish.

To educate; bring or train up.

Synonyms and Nurse, Nourish, Nurture. These words are of the same origin. Nurse has the least, and nourish much, of figurative use. Nurture expresses most of thoughtful care and moral discipline: it is not now used in any but this secondary sense.

To instruct, school, rear, breed, discipline.

v. provide with nourishment

n. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

n. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

v. bring up

v. help develop, help grow

"˜evolutionary biopsychosocial model™ is meant to encompass the life-history connection between specific components of nature and specific components of nurture that can be expressed teleologically either as ˜nature operates via nurture™ or ˜nurture operates via nature.™"

nurtured    nurtures    nurturing   

upbringing    socialisation    enculturation    socialization    acculturation   

guardian for nurture    age of nurture   

nutritional    nutritive    nutrition    nutritious    nutrient    nurse    nourishment    nourish    nursery    nutriment   

fledge    foster    cradle   

education    training    food    diet    bring up    cherish    nurse    tend    nourish    educate   

Bircher    searcher   

pleasure/pain    incapability    equipoise    inculcation