nutriment

Noun

Meaning

That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.

That which promotes development or growth.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

alimentation nutrition sustenance nourishment aliment Victuals commons pap commissariat support food keep mineral milch dietetics
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Antonyms

loss rest basis damage stay stand
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Hypernyms

food nutrient

Hyponyms

goody course milk treat meal dish

Examples

The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind. Leonardo da Vinci

The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment. Blaise Pascal

How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend. John Armstrong

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap. Henry David Thoreau

Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine. Richard Watson

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. Leonardo da Vinci

Close letter words and terms

nutrigenomics nutrikinetic nutrikinetics nutrimental nutrimetabolomics nutriocyte