Nourishment is the food a body needs to keep going. Take nourishment, proper nourishment, without nourishment.
It is a slightly formal and old-fashioned word, used in medicine and in writing about care rather than in ordinary talk about meals. It carries the sense of sustaining rather than merely filling. The Latin nutrire means to feed or suckle.
1nounnourishmentThe food a body needs to keep going.
“The sick child was too weak to take any nourishment.”
nourishment is food.
Old French norissement comes from norrir, to feed, from Latin nutrire, to nurse or suckle. Nurse and nutrient are relatives.
Old French
norissement
Middle English
norisshement
English, today
nourishment
From Middle English norisshement, from Middle French -, from Old French norissement, from norrir, equivalent to nourish + -ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA