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Definition of Nutritiveness
1. Noun. The quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth.
Generic synonyms: Wholesomeness
Derivative terms: Nutritious, Nutritive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutritiveness
Literary usage of Nutritiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1827)
"He commences with observing that nutritiveness and digestibility are not synonymous
terms, and that while nutritiveness depends on composition, ..."
2. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1856)
"The nutritiveness of the different kinds of grain is dependent upon their
comparative proportions of ... The same proportion of nutritiveness consequently ..."
3. Natural Law in Science and Philosophy by Emile Boutroux (1914)
"The more implies the less, but it does so by adding to it. Thus, the lower orders
of living beings possess nutritiveness ; animals possess ..."
4. How Nature Cures: Comprising a New System of Hygiene; Also the Natural Food by Emmet Densmore (1892)
"The inference is, then, that they should have a diet which combines, as much as
possible, nutritiveness and digestibility." The foregoing quotations are ..."
5. Gardener's & Farmer's Reason why by Robert Kemp Philp (1860)
"The nutritiveness of any kind of solid or liquid food depends upon three
circumstances :—its digestibility, the quantity, and the proportions of the ..."
6. The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern (1894)
"The inference is, then, that they should have a diet which combines, as much as
possible, nutritiveness and digestibility. It is doubtless true that boys ..."
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