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Nippy Sweetie [nip-ee SWEE-tee]
(n.)

- A bracing alcoholic potation, esp. whisky.
- A peevishly sharp-tongued person.
- A hot or sour-tasting sweet.

From “nippy” (biting, sharp) from “nip” (a pinch; a sharp bite) from German “nippen” (to pinch sharply; to bite suddenly) from Middle Low German “nipen” (to nip, to pinch) from Middle Dutch “nipen” (to pinch) which became Dutch “nijpen” from Old Norse “hnippa” (to prod)
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“sweetie” (candy, lollipop) from “sweet” from Old English “swete” (pleasing to the senses, mind or feelings) from Proto-Germanic “swotja-” from PIE “swād-” (sweet, pleasant)

Used in a sentence:

"You should have seen the look on his face when I offered him a nippy sweetie before going home for the night!”



(from The Grandiloquent Word of the Day on FB)

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nugatory [noo-guh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, nyoo-]

adjective:
1 of no real value; trifling; worthless.
2 of no force or effect; ineffective; futile; vain


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Examples:

The petitioners through lawyer Kibe Mungai argue that the petition will be rendered nugatory by June 2024 unless the Notice of motion is heard as a matter of urgency and the said petition for hearing and determined sooner. (Dzuya Walter, Petitioners seek CJ Koome’s intervention to have cost of living case certified urgent, Citizen Digital, January 2024)

In any event, at this stage, we are of the view that a conservatory order will, not only preserve the status quo but also save Portside Companies themselves from nugatory expenditure should the appeal succeed. (Sam Kiplagat, Court stops Joho family firm Sh5.9bn grain facility at Mombasa port, Business Daily, July 2024)

Yates is like many figures in 20th-century American literature: an early flowering of an intriguing talent rendered nugatory by crowding, tormenting demons - drink, drugs, self-doubt, self-loathing, burn-out and so on. (William Boyd, Tough is the night, The Spectator, December 2004)

I fancy the writer could hardly propose anything more alarming to those immediately interested in that navigation than such a repeal. If he does not mean this, he has got no farther than a nugatory proposition, which nobody can contradict, and for which no man is the wiser. (Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke)

According to these highly respectable witnesses, the minister, conscious that he was dying,-conscious, also, that the reverence of the multitude placed him already among saints and angels,-had desired, by yielding up his breath in the arms of that fallen woman, to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of man’s own righteousness. (Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter)

Origin:

'trifling, of no value; invalid, futile,' c. 1600, from Latin nugatorius 'worthless, trifling, futile,' from nugator 'jester, trifler, braggart,' from nugatus, past participle of nugari 'to trifle, jest, play the fool,' from nugæ 'jokes, jests, trifles,' a word of unknown origin. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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Neoteny, n.: retention of childlike physical traits into adulthood.


“Other bears can also be cute, especially when they’re babies,” says James Serpell, a professor emeritus of ethics and animal welfare at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. But as other bears mature, “they have more pronounced faces, longer jaws.” They start to look more intimidating. Pandas “have very short faces for a bear. And this big, big round head.”

The big round head is key.

Also, they play with toys. And they’re clumsy, like human toddlers.

There is a scientific term for this retention of childlike physical traits into adulthood: neoteny.

And there’s a name for the way we react to neoteny: the “Cute Response.” Serpell, who has studied this, says it is a universal response to pandas across cultures."

You can read more, and see pictures in this Washington Post article (gift link)

Edit: from [personal profile] full_metal_ox :

Scaled the paywall for readers who can’t bring through the link:

https://archive.ph/eCbhM

And here’s an illustrative essay by Stephen Jay Gould, explaining why cartoon characters tend to evolve cuter and more juvenile character design, with bigger eyes, shorter snouts, and larger head-to-body-size ratios as their popularity grows:

https://faculty.uca.edu/benw/biol4415/papers/Mickey.pdf
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Natron - noun.

Natron is a naturally forming compound once popularly used for mummification and as a cleaning product. It had many ancient household uses, such as a water softener, insecticide and even as a smokeless fuel when combined with castor oil. You may be wondering what this amazing product is made of! The scientific name is sodium carbonate decahydrate--a kind of soda ash.

Natron is usually white but can appear yellow or greyish when mixed with impurities. The name comes from the place where it was once mined, Wadi El Natrun, in Northern Egypt.


Emi Koussi crater natron.jpg
By Stefan Thüngen - Own work, Public Domain, Link


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myrmidon [mur-mi-don, -dn]

noun:
faithful follower who carries out orders without question; a subordinate who executes orders unquestioningly or unscrupulously

Examples:

These days Tate's name pops up occasionally in bookstores, never in cafés: he's simply not part of the contemporary discussion. Literary history and her myrmidons, the anthologists, have hacked down his poetic ranks - often to a single poem, 'Ode to the Confederate Dead' - and left the rest to lie where they fell, out of print. (David Yezzi, The violence of Allen Tate, The New Criterion, September 2001)

OK, first of all, George III didn't have myrmidons (Charles P Pierce, This Week In The Laboratories Of Democracy, Esquire, March 2014)

He was merely bored when Thrush tried to distract him with some account of the murder in which he himself was only interested because his myrmidon happened to have discovered the body. (E W Hornung, The Camera Fiend)

His myrmidon on this occasion was a little, red-nosed butler, who waddled about the house after his master, while the latter bounced from room to room like a cracker. (Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall)

'"We are gathered," he ses, "to consider what can be done for the defence of our sainted Brother Lawley, who's in the hands of the myrmidons of the law." (Edgar Wallace, The Man Who Shot the "Favourite" (The Gold Mine))

Origin:

one of a warlike people of ancient Thessaly, legendarily ruled by Achilles and accompanying him to Troy, c. 1400, from Latin Myrmidones (plural), from Greek Myrmidones, Thessalian tribe led by Achilles to the Trojan War, fabled to have been ants changed into men, and often derived from Greek myrmex 'ant' (from PIE morwi- ), but Watkins does not connect them and Klein's sources suggest a connection to Greek mormos 'dread, terror.' Transferred sense of 'faithful unquestioning follower,' often with a suggestion of unscrupulousness, is from c. 1600. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

The Myrmidons, legendary inhabitants of Thessaly in Greece, were known for their fierce devotion to Achilles, the king who led them in the Trojan War. Myrmex means 'ant' in Greek, an image that evokes small and insignificant workers mindlessly fulfilling their duties. Whether the original Myrmidons were given their name for that reason is open to question. The 'ant' association is strong, however. Some say the name is from a legendary ancestor who once had the form of an ant; others say the Myrmidons were actually transformed from ants. In any case, since the 1400s, we've employed myrmidon in its not-always-complimentary, ant-evoking, figurative sense. (Merriam-Webster)

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Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025

Newsworthy (adjective)
newsworthy [ nooz-wur-thee, nyooz- ]


adjective
1. of sufficient interest to the public or a special audience to warrant press attention or coverage.

Other Words From
news wor thi·ness noun
un·news wor thy adjective

Related Words
consequential, front-page, meaningful, momentous, relevant

See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com

Origin: First recorded in 1930–35; news + -worthy

Recent Examples on the Web
There were other political events in a newsworthy year that ranked in the Top 100 across multiple networks.
—Brad Adgate, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025

So Outdoor Life asked experts to break down the most recent newsworthy breakthroughs and ideas related to the disease.
—Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024

The salary is less newsworthy than the length of the deal and the buyout.
—Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024

The information the source supplies must be newsworthy and give readers genuine insight.
—Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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niveous [nivēəs]

adjective
1. snowy or resembling snow

origin
Latin niveus, from niv-, nix snow

examples
1. They drove up and down the niveous and tortuous hills in and out of the town. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America, Steven David Justin Stills
2. "Yes, my dear daughter," said her venerable son-in-law, running his fingers through his niveous thatch, "he was the first of the time-wasting Van Winkles." Her Weight in Gold, George Barr McCutcheon, 1897
3. Observations of the niveous and glacial features met with on the sledging journeys from both Antarctic bases. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson, 1920

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Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024

Noisome (adjective)
noi·some [noi-suhm]


adjective
1. offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
2. harmful or injurious to health; noxious.

Other Words From
noi some·ly adverb
noi some·ness noun

See synonyms for Noisome on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
1. mephitic, stinking, rotten, putrid, fetid

Origin: First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English noy (aphetic variant of annoy ) + -some

Example Sentences
It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour of noisome decay.
From The Daily Beast

Her tomb is in a small chapel, dark, damp, and even noisome: it is indicated only by a flat unadorned stone.
From Project Gutenberg

I felt assured he would not live long, unless removed from that noisome place.
From Project Gutenberg

She had entered into noisome places, but so had the marsh-hawk poising grandly on motionless wing there above.
From Project Gutenberg

The fragrant white pond lily springs from the same black mud out of which the yellow lily sucks its obscene life and noisome odor.
From Project Gutenberg

But it was the choice and the pleasure of Milton to penetrate the noisome vapors, and to brave the terrible explosion.
From Project Gutenberg
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nefarious [ni-fair-ee-uhs]

adjective:
1 extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous

Examples:

Remus Repeal Reserve was named after bootlegger George Remus, a man with a nefarious and sometimes problematic history who nevertheless was an important figure during Prohibition. (Jonah Flicker, One of the Best Bourbons on the Market Just Dropped Its Newest Edition, Robb Report, August 2024)

This time there are more nefarious thugs to run toward and away from. (Yvette Benavides, Review: Big trouble in the Big Easy in 'East of Texas, West of Hell', Houston Chronicle, December 2020)

I crept close, feeling unspeakably mean; I got my Turkish penny ready, and was extending a trembling hand to make the nefarious exchange, when I heard a cough behind me. (Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad)

Less figuratively speaking, he came up into the printing-office to expose from the book the nefarious plagiarism of an editor in a neighboring city, who had adapted with the change of names and a word or two here and there, whole passages from the essay on Barere, to the denunciation of a brother editor. (William Dean Howells, My Literary Passions)

She was to join him a week later, after he had had time to spy out the land and make his nefarious schemes for a mock marriage. (William J Locke, Jaffery)

Origin:

'wicked in the extreme,' c. 1600, from Latin nefarius 'wicked, abominable, impious,' from nefas 'crime, wrong, impiety,' from ne- 'not' (from PIE root ne- 'not') + fas 'right, lawful, divinely spoken,' related to fari 'to speak,' from PIE root bha- 'to speak, tell, say. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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ninnyhammer [nin-ee-ham-er]

noun:
a fool or simpleton

Examples:

My efforts were feeble because I was a ninnyhammer, but I brought the project in under budget.(Al Batt, At least I wouldn’t have to bother to burn it behind me, Albert Lea Tribune, March 2021)

I already eat as slowly as I can without looking like an affected ninnyhammer, so my alternatives seem to be to stare at him as he eats, or to eat more food myself, though I am already full. (Judith Martin, One Talks, The Other Chews, Washington Post, January 1994)

You’re nowt but a ninnyhammer, Sam Gamgee: that’s what the Gaffer said to me often enough, it being a word of his. (J R R Tolkein, Lord of the Rings)

Before I knew you were the abject ninnyhammer that you have just told me you are I had a good opinion of you, and thought that you were cut out to make a first-class traveller and explorer—the sort of a fellow who could lead a surveying expedition through the wilderness, or work up new countries and find out what they are made of and what’s in them. (Frank Richard Stockton, The Associate Hermits)

"How can I, with a mind full of grey monkeys with blue faces, call myself a Thinker? What am I anyhow?" I pursued the sad inquiry: "A noodle, a pigwidgeon, a ninny-hammer - a bubble on the wave, Madame, a leaf in the wind!" (Logan Pearsall Smith, All Trivia)


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From The Works of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, 1730

Origin:

'simpleton,' 1590s, from ninny ('simpleton, fool,' 1590s, perhaps a misdivision of an innocent or from the pet form of the proper name Innocent, with sense influenced by the name's literal meaning) + hammer (Old English hamor 'hammer,' from Proto-Germanic hamaraz, source also of Old Saxon hamur, Middle Dutch, Dutch hamer, Old High German hamar, German Hammer), but the signification of the second element is obscure (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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Nyckelharpa - noun.

Unusual instruments are always a good source of unusual words and today's specimen is the nyckelharpa hailing from Sweden, although found in other countries as well. Meaning "key harp" or "keyed fiddle", it's a kind of bowed string instrument. Keyed string instruments date back to the 1200s and sometimes earlier, but, for whatever reason, this type of instrument was predominantly found and used in Sweden.


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By Karl Gruber - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link


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Nil desperandum: "never despair", in Latin.
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"Never despair. But if you do, work on, in despair"
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noisome [noi-suhm]

adjective:
1 noxious, harmful
2a offensive to the senses and especially to the sense of smell
2b highly obnoxious or objectionable

Examples:

It was six yards square and extravagantly swathed in purple and gold, from its velvet headboard and valance to its voluminous damask curtains. The Virgin Queen took it with her when she moved from one royal residence to the next, chased by winter drafts and the inevitable buildup of noisome effluvia emanating from the rudimentary sanitation of her privy. (Kathryn Harrison, The Body Politic, The New York Times, February 2014)

So, we get back from a few days away to the most appalling smell. Even the word 'noisome' (one of my favourites) doesn't cut it. This was a stench so hideous that it actually made me gag. (Lynne Barrett-Lee, Here's how I took on the stray cat causing mayhem in our home, Wales Online, April 2018)

An entire 'Seinfeld' episode revolves around Kramer's mad plan to swim in the East River and the noisome odors he begins to exude. (Tony Perrottet, How New York City Is Rediscovering Its Maritime Spirit, Smithsoniam Magazine, May 2017)

There's no furniture or bedding, and the only running water (whether for drinking, washing or flushing the noisome toilet) is the rain pouring through the leaking roof. (Nadia Wheatley, Writer Charmian Clift, her biographer and one surprising, Aussie-linked Greek island, The Sydney Morning Herald, October 2022)

The cavern that had swallowed his emeralds in a fashion so nefarious was a steep incline running swiftly down into darkness. It was low and narrow, and slippery with noisome oozings; but the money-lender was heartened as he went on by a glimpse of the glowing jewels, which seemed to float beneath him in the black air, as if to illuminate his way. (Clark Ashton Smith, 'The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan')

As the light sank into the noisome depths, there came a shriek which chilled Adam's blood - a prolonged agony of pain and terror which seemed to have no end. (Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm)

Origin:

late 14c, noisom, 'harmful, noxious', from noye, noi 'harm, misfortune' (c 1300), shortened form of anoi 'annoyance' (from Old French anoier, see annoy) + -some. Meaning 'bad-smelling, offensive to the sense of smell' is by 1570s. (Online Eytymology Dictionary)

Noisome looks and sounds like a close relation of noisy, but it's not. While noisy describes what is excessively loud, noisome typically describes what is excessively stinky. (It is also used to describe things offensive to the senses generally, as well as things that are highly obnoxious, objectionable, or simply harmful.) Noisome comes from the synonymous Middle English noysome, which combined the suffix -some, meaning 'characterized by a specified thing', and the noun noy, meaning 'annoyance'. Noisy, incidentally, comes ultimately from Latin nausea, meaning 'nausea'. (Merriam-Webster)

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nethermost [neth-er-mohst, -muhst]

adjective:
farthest down, lowest

Examples:

Zheng Ruiyu from China Academy of Art uses her collection to display the mildness and poetic vibe of Jiangnan (lower reaches of south Yangtze River). The crisscrossed lanes and alleys in Huzhou, her hometown in nethermost Zhejiang Province, and Hangzhou inspire her. (Wu Huixin, Hangzhou still China's No 1 fashionistas, Shanghai Daily, November 2018)

All we want for Christmas is... Besides Chelsea FC being cast into the nethermost abysses of the Non Leagues and Stamford Bridge getting ploughed under? (John Ashdown, Championship 2013-14: the fans' half-term report, The Guardian, December 2013)

From the topmost hair of his shocky head to the nethermost sole of his tough little feet, Bootsey Biggs was a Boy. (Lemuel Ely Quigg, Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York)

Looking back, I think that Mrs Strickland was the most harmless of all the lion-hunters that pursue their quarry from the rarefied heights of Hampstead to the nethermost studios of Cheyne Walk. (W Somerset Maugham, Moon and Sixpence)

The gloom which surrounded that horrible charnel pit, which seemed to go down to the very bowels of the earth, conveyed from far down the sights and sounds of the nethermost hell. (Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm )

Origin:

'lowest, undermost,' early 14c, from nether + -most. Nethermore (late 14c) is now rare or obsolete. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

First recorded in 1250–1300, nethermost is from the Middle English word nethermast. (Dictionary.com)

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Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2022

Nescience (noun)
nesc·ience [nesh-uhns, nesh-ee-uhns, nes-ee-]


noun
1. lack of knowledge; ignorance.
2. agnosticism (def. 2).

OTHER WORDS FROM NESCIENCE
nescient, adjective
non·nes·cience, noun
non·nes·cient, adjective

WORDS RELATED TO NESCIENCE
bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, fog, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, insensitivity, oblivion, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism

See synonyms for: nescience / nescient on Thesaurus.com

ORIGIN: First recorded in 1605–15; from Late Latin nescientia “ignorance,” from nescient-, the stem of nesciens, present participle of nescire “to be ignorant, not to know,” equivalent to ne- “not” + scientia “knowledge”; see science

HOW TO USE NESCIENCE IN A SENTENCE
The Americans' good and honest intentions were only equalled by their nescience of the Malay character.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS|JOHN FOREMAN

Can the Churinga nanja and reincarnation beliefs have set up nescience of obvious facts among the Arunta?
THE SECRET OF THE TOTEM|ANDREW LANG

That nescience, says Mr. Frazer, "may be explained easily enough from the habits and modes of thought of savage men."
THE SECRET OF THE TOTEM|ANDREW LANG

Perhaps all the science that is not at bottom physical science is only pretentious nescience.
CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION|GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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nefandous [nuh-fan-duhs]

adjective:
Not to be spoken of, unmentionable; abominable, atrocious

Examples:

At the same time, González de Mendoza, a thorough admirer of father Las Casas, the defender of Indians, decided to omit from his sources those elements that could provide the hardliners with arguments, the just title, to confront China, such as the nefandous sin witnessed by Loarca and the death by a thousand cuts described by Dueñas. (Dolors Folch, Crime and Prejudice: Ming Criminal Justice as Seen in 16th Century Spanish Sources (Abstract), Researchgate, March 2018)

Also the Daemon belched forth most horrid and nefandous Blasphemies, exalting himself above the most High. (Increase Mather, Remarkable Providences: An Essay For the Recording of Illustrious Providences, 1684)

The poor fellow was chanting the familiar stations of the Boston-Cambridge tunnel that burrowed through our peaceful native soil thousands of miles away in New England, yet to me the ritual had neither irrelevance nor home-feeling. It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it. (H P Lovecraft, 'At The Mountains of Madness')

Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefandous conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves - they took no moral stances and lived by none. (Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age)

Origin:

'not to be spoken of, abominable, very shocking to the general sense of justice or religion,' 1630s, from Latin nefandus 'unmentionable, impious, heinous,' from ne-, negative particle + fandus 'to be spoken,' gerundive of fari 'to speak,' from PIE root bha- (2) 'to speak, tell, say.' (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Mid 17th century; earliest use found in James Howell (?1594–1666), historian and political writer. From classical Latin nefandus wicked, impious, abominable (from ne- not + fandus 'to be spoken', gerundive of fārī to speak) + -ous.

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Niddy-noddy - noun.

I'm in week eight of my final semester at art college and I'm pleased to present the niddy-noddy (plural: niddy-noddies). It's a tool that can make skeins of yarn and act as a measuring tool as well if the size is known. The video below demonstrates how to use one:



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Niddy-noddy - noun.

I'm in week eight of my final semester at art college and I'm pleased to present the niddy-noddy (plural: niddy-noddies). It's a tool that can make skeins of yarn and act as a measuring tool as well if the size is known. The video below demonstrates how to use one:



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Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022

Nurture (verb, noun)
nur·ture [nur-cher]


verb (used with object)
1. to feed and protect: to nurture one's offspring.
2. to support and encourage, as during the period of training or development; foster: to nurture promising musicians.
3. to bring up; train; educate.

noun
4. rearing, upbringing, training, education, or the like.
5. development: the nurture of young artists.
6. something that nourishes; nourishment; food.

OTHER WORDS FROM NURTURE
nur·tur·a·ble, adjective
nur·ture·less, adjective
nur·tur·er, noun
un·nur·tured, adjective

WORDS RELATED TO NURTURE
breeding, care, diet, discipline, edibles, education, feed, food, instruction, nutriment, provender, provisions, rearing, subsistence, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands, victuals, back

See synonyms for: nurture / nurtured / nurturing on Thesaurus.com
SYNONYM STUDY FOR NURTURE
1, 3. See nurse.

Origin: First recorded in 1300–50; (noun) Middle English norture, from Middle French, variant of nourriture, from Late Latin nutritura “a nourishing,” equivalent to Latin nutrit(us) (past participle of nutrire “to feed”) + -ura noun suffix; see nourish, -ure; (verb) derivative of the noun

HOW TO USE NURTURE IN A SENTENCE
Part of what makes individuals unique are the combinations of genes and environmental influences that shape them — nature and nurture.
THE YEAR IN BIOLOGY|JOHN RENNIE|DECEMBER 23, 2020|QUANTA MAGAZINE

I suggest dropping these folks into an email nurture campaign so that they are being engaged in an automated way until their behavior indicates that they are ready to be contacted by sales.
SMX OVERTIME: ETERNAL TESTING, THE KEY TO FACEBOOK ADS SUCCESS|AMY BISHOP|DECEMBER 21, 2020|SEARCH ENGINE LAND

Leading athletes benefit from a complex, and interrelated, mixture of nature and nurture.
DISSECTING ATHLETIC GREATNESS: NATURE, NURTURE, LUCKY BREAKS AND A ‘QUIET EYE’|LIZ ROBBINS|DECEMBER 11, 2020|WASHINGTON POST

As for the second question on nature versus nurture, this study can’t answer it.
WHY ENDURANCE ATHLETES FEEL LESS PAIN|ALEX HUTCHINSON|OCTOBER 7, 2020|OUTSIDE ONLINE
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Nomophobia - verb

Words are constantly entering and exiting our collective vocabularies, so for today's post I sought out words that didn't exist until a few years ago. Nomophobia is a fear of being without your mobile phone or that it won't function in some way. The word is simply constructed from no mobile + phobia. The first version was the much clunkier no-mobile-phone phobia used in a 2008 study by the UK Post Office. Since then, nomophobia has been a topic of serious study as our lives--and anxieties--revolve around digital devices.
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