nurturant

hoiva- puhekieltä That provides nourishment; nurturing. (defdate)
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In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

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.