nurturant

adj

1. That provides nourishment; nurturing.

   “Go to readings, read books like this anthology, read the publications, become nurturant and enriched and educated about what's going on around them, form writing support groups.”

   “In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.”

noun

1. That which nurtures; a nurturing factor or influence.

   “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.”