nurturant
- adjective
- /ˈnɜrʧərənt/
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nutritivo
- Parents often show nurturant behaviors by comforting their children when they are upset or afraid.
Examples
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This personality type is not empathetic, nurturant, or supportive, but rather demanding and explosive.
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Indeed, educators are concerned about how children develop the capacity to care for other individuals and how adults can foster nurturant, prosocial feelings and helping behavior.
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As soon as we look carefully, nature is neither nurturant nor benign.
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Across all human cultures, women appear to be more nurturant and less combative than men.
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This personality type is not nurturant, empathetic, or supportive, but rather extremely self-centered.
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The political performances in front of the clinic were constrained by the necessity that demonstrators felt to display themselves according to this construction of feminine identity in which nurturant love was prominent.
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The salvation there, had the Europeans known where and how to look for it, was obviously in the integrative tribal ways, the nurturant communitarian values, and the rich interplay with nature that made up the Indian cultures—as it made up, for that matter, the cultures of ancient peoples everywhere, not excluding Europe.
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A nurturant caregiver provides support and guidance to help children thrive emotionally and physically.
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The nurturant environment in the classroom encourages students to express their feelings and collaborate with one another.
Synonyms
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Showing care and kindness like a mother
Antonyms
How Nurturing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nurturant comes from the same root as nurture and nutrition, from the Latin word nutrire meaning 'to feed' or 'to nourish'. So a nurturant person or place gives food, care and protection so someone can grow.