Nutriment
What it means
Food or support that sustains health and growth.
Reach for it when naming food or figurative support that sustains growth
The young plants drew steady nutriment from the amended soil.
Words to choose between 6
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everyday
food
Fits when plain edible material is all that is meant
Careful Food loses the sustaining literary nuance.
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warm
Fits when the sustaining effect is central
Careful Nourishment is broader and more current.
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warm
Fits when figurative support for development is intended
Careful Nurture is care, not literal edible matter.
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professional
Fits when the overall process or quality of nourishment matters
Careful Nutrition is a process or field, not the material supplied.
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formal
aliment
Fits when an uncommon technical synonym suits historical prose
Careful Aliment is at least as rare as nutriment.
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literary
sustenance
Fits when food needed to maintain life is meant
Careful Sustenance rarely describes a specific nutrient.
Opposites 3
- starvation
- deprivation
- poison
Common phrases 3
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provide nutriment
The amended soil will provide nutriment throughout spring.
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mental nutriment
Conversation with careful readers gave her mental nutriment.
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source of nutriment
Fallen leaves became a source of nutriment for the woodland floor.
Usage notes
Keep in mind
Nutriment is rare in contemporary everyday English; nourishment is normally clearer.
Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: Vealhurl, Southern England accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Updated