nurturance
English
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[edit]nurturance (countable and uncountable, plural nurturances)
- (psychology) The provision of physical and emotional care. [from 20th c.]
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- Rousseauist responsiveness and nurturance automatically flip over into their opposites.
- The act of supporting, fostering.
- 1991 February 4, David Lafontaine, Patrick Ward, “Why Our Future Is In The GOP”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 5:
- The colossal stupidity of the one-party strategy has had three disastrous effects: the nurturance of right-wing Republican homophobes, the weakening and silencing of pro-gay, progressive Republicans, and the allowance of lacklustrer, liberal Democrats to exploit us at their will and ignore us at their convenience.