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nurturants

nurturants is the plural of nurturant.

Meaning of nurturant

Noun

nurturant (plural nurturants)

  1. That which nurtures; a nurturing factor or influence.
    • By removing one or another aspect from an organism's visual environment, one can determine the essential visual nurturants. The latter are then considered the basic visual-environmental determinants of the development of visual perception.1975, Austin Herbert Riesen, The developmental neuropsychology of sensory deprivation, page 171

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Questions about nurturants

What is nurturants the plural of?
Nurturants is the plural of nurturant.

Words near nurturants in the dictionary

  1. nurtural
  2. nurturally
  3. nurturance
  4. nurturances
  5. nurturant
  6. nurturants
  7. nurture
  8. nurtured
  9. nurtureless
  10. nurturement
  11. nurturements

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