Synonyms for Nutrition
nuˈtrɪʃ ən, nyu-nu·tri·tion

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1. nutrition

   Food is, in the popular sense, whatever one eats in contradistinction to what one drinks. Thus, we speak of food and drink, of wholesome, unwholesome, or indigestible food; but in a more scientific sense whatever, when taken into the digestive organs, serves to build up structure or supply waste may be termed food; the word is extended to plants to signify whatever taken in any way into the organism serves similar purposes; thus, we speak of liquid food, plant food, etc.; in this wider sense food is closely synonymous with nutriment, nourishment, and sustenance. Diet refers to the quantity and quality of food habitually taken, with reference to preservation of health. Victuals is a plain, homely word for whatever may be eaten; we speak of choice viands, cold victuals. Nourishment and sustenance apply to whatever can be introduced into the system as a means of sustaining life; we say of a convalescent, he is taking nourishment. Nutriment and nutrition have more of scientific reference to the vitalizing principles of various foods; thus, wheat is said to contain a great amount of nutriment. Regimen considers food as taken by strict rule, but applies more widely to the whole ordering of life. Fare is a general word for all table supplies, good or bad; as, sumptuous fare; wretched fare. Feed, fodder, and provender are used only of the food of the lower animals, feed denoting anything consumed, but more commonly grain, fodder denoting hay, cornstalks, or the like, sometimes called "long feed;" provender is dry feed, whether grain or hay, straw, etc. Forage denotes any kind of food suitable for horses and cattle, primarily as obtained by a military force in scouring the country, especially an enemy's country.

   Synonyms:
   aliment, diet, fare, feed, fodder, food, forage, nourishment, nutriment, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

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1. nutrition

   Synonyms:
   alimentation, sustentation, feeding

   Antonyms:
   exhaustion, starvation, inanition

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. nutritionnoun

   (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance

   Synonyms:
   nourishment, nutriment, aliment, sustenance, victuals, alimentation

2. nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victualsnoun

   a source of materials to nourish the body

   Synonyms:
   sustentation, sustainment, victual, edible, nutrition, nutriment, pabulum, keep, viands, alimentation, upkeep, victuals, bread and butter, provender, feeding, support, eatable, aliment, provisions, sustenance, commissariat, living, maintenance, nourishment, livelihood, comestible

3. nutritionnoun

   the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)

   Synonyms:
   nourishment, nutriment, aliment, sustenance, victuals, alimentation

Matched Categories

1. • Human
   • Organic Process
   • Physiology
   • Science

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1. nutritionnoun

   Synonyms:
   nourishing

2. nutritionnoun

   Synonyms:
   food, NUTRIMENT

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1. nutritionnoun

   Synonyms:
   nourishment, feeding, nutriment, food, eutrophy, (healthy nutrition), malnutrition, denutrition, innutrition, dystrophy (defective nutrition)

   Associated words:
   threpsology, trophology, trophic

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1. List of paraphrases for "nutrition":

   nutritional, feeding, malnutrition, diet, nutrient, food, valeur, nourishment, eating, dietary, nutrition-related, ernährung, nutritious, feed, nutritionally, 'alimentation

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1. Eran Elinav:

   Measuring such a large cohort without any prejudice really enlightened us on how inaccurate we all were about one of the most basic concepts of our existence, which is what we eat and how we integrate nutrition into our daily life, in contrast to our current practices, tailoring diets to the individual may allow us to utilize nutrition as means of controlling elevated blood sugar levels and its associated medical conditions.

2. Erik Neuenschwander:

   For food, we have nutrition labels. You can see if it's packed with protein, loaded with sugar or maybe both -- all before you buy it, so we thought it would be great to have something similar for apps.

3. Georges Benjamin:

   We know that ZIP code matters, we know very clearly that things such as educational attainment, access and utilization of things like tobacco, physical inactivity, nutrition, the location of if they have access to things like grocery stores, all those things matter at the county level and at the local level.

4. Katri Hemio:

   The most important message to other shift workers is that they should be aware of increased risk for chronic diseases and that healthy nutrition may lower the risk.

5. Vincent Martin:

   The food and nutrition insecurity situation in North Korea is worrying and the African swine fever outbreak puts additional pressure on the availability of proteins of animal origin.