NURTURANCE Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

nurturance

noun

Definition of nurturance

as in encouragement

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as in fertility

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Recent Examples of nurturance While accepting her award, Louis-Dreyfus reflected on her own health journey with breast cancer and the invaluable importance of care and nurturance and while sick. — Brianna J. Heath, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026 This lack of empathy for men reinforces a rigid hierarchy where human traits (like kindness and nurturance) are seen as a weakness. — Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 11 Mar. 2026 This function is consistent with the developmental origin of crying in the infants’ need for nurturance, and its evolutionary origin in the separation call of juvenile mammals. — Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025 To some, the primate enclosure offers a nurturance of last resort. — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 At the same time, male protagonists in dragon-riding fiction by authors like Jane Yolen, Christopher Paolini, and Cressida Cowell often reflected traits like nurturance, kindness, and empathy long associated with women. — Rebecca Scofield / Made By History, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025 Van Gogh had unchained it from its age-old funereal associations and reinvented it as a tour de force of emotional connection and nurturance. — Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 11 May 2023 Hank’s father is a famous literary figure, which makes Hank the junior to a senior who offered nurturance and support to other writers but not to his own son. — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023

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Noun

But Smith also had encouragement for Hurts, whom Lynn and the Eagles said should be expected to make a full recovery with treatment from blood thinners that precludes contact activities for the next few months.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
Kid Rock's support eventually extended beyond words of encouragement.

— Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of encouragement

Noun

That regret is less visible online because men don’t tend to shout about failing fertility.

— Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 24 Oct. 2026
The winemaking team uses a herd of Texel sheep during the late winter and early spring to improve soil structure and fertility.

— Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of fertility

Noun

The Lake Wylie Marine Commission has rescinded its support for Charlotte Water’s request to modify its interbasin transfer agreement, the group’s leadership told Mecklenburg County commissioners during its annual report Tuesday.

— Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2026
But through the hardships, Andrea Soto said the community’s support has been a positive.

— Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of support

Noun

As in the productivity and content creation tests, the Scar 18 wound up somewhere in the middle for most of our graphics benchmarks.

— Marshall Honorof, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Phase one is personal productivity, where individuals use AI to accomplish work faster.

— Chris Koehler, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of productivity

Noun

Haaland, a citizen of Laguna Pueblo in west-central New Mexico, once relied on government assistance as a single mother.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Dozens of people were convicted in connection with a sprawling, $250-million children’s food assistance scheme that predated this administration, though more charges have been announced in recent months.

— Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of assistance

Noun

The paradox of it, private and public, hidden yet accessible, reflects something essential about Antwerp, a city whose richness lives largely behind closed doors.

— Michael James Gardner, Architectural Digest, 26 Oct. 2026
Ramsay adds the crème fraîche cold at the end to stop the cooking and bring richness to the dish.

— Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of richness

Noun

The groups cover trade facilitation, logistics digitalization, investment, skills development and multimodal logistics infrastructure.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
The primary goal is to give Caleb Wilson and Matas Buzelis as much playing time as necessary to develop key aspects of their game — on-ball facilitation, 1-on-1 defense, off-ball movement, spot-up shooting — to further their long-term growth.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of facilitation

Noun

Mubarak Bekheit, an aid worker in Darfur, told the AP by phone on Wednesday that many people remained missing and some bodies had yet to be recovered from homes in the area after the strike hit a civilian neighborhood.

— YASSIR ABDALLA, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
In the primary, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee courted Ford for a possible endorsement but ultimately found policy differences with him, Ford said, including his declining to support unconditional military aid to Israel.

— Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

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