📚 Nurturance, noun. 🔉 /ˈnəːtʃ(ə)rəns/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Emotional and physical nourishment and care given to someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sources of nurturance and security. 2. While attachment folks would probably agree with this, these same people want their baby to expect them to consistently respond to their needs for emotional and physical care and nurturance. 3. So, the lack of emotional nurturance and feedback is a major part of the G2's problem. 4. Perhaps most important, a first generation of children are learning that artifacts have a life cycle, and that they need care, even emotional nurturance. 5. From my own clinical experience, incest appears to have a more complicated impact on development, which may arise from the mixed feelings felt toward the abuser who not infrequently may also be the main source of nurturance for the child. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic