fosterage
1. encouragement; aiding the development of something • Syn: fostering • Derivationally related forms: foster, foster (for: fostering) • Hypernyms: encouragement 2. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community - they debated whether nature or nurture was more important • Syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing • Derivationally related forms: rear (for: rearing), nurtural (for: nurture), nurture (for: nurture), foster, foster (for: fostering) • Hypernyms: socialization, socialisation, acculturation, enculturation
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