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NURTURANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nurturance mean?
• NURTURANCE (noun)
The noun NURTURANCE has 1 sense:
1. physical and emotional care and nourishment
Familiarity information: NURTURANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Physical and emotional care and nourishment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("nurturance" is a kind of...):
aid; attention; care; tending (the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something)
Derivation:
nurture (provide with nourishment)
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