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Aliment vs Nutriment - What's the difference?

aliment | nutriment |

As nouns the difference between aliment and nutriment

is that aliment is food while nutriment is a source of nourishment; food.

As a verb aliment

is to feed, nourish.

aliment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Food.
  • (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • aliments of their sloth and weakness
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 356:
    • All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?
  • (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
  • To sustain, support.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 434:
    • Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.

    Related terms

    * alimentary * alimentary canal * alimony

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    nutriment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A source of nourishment; food.
  • Something that promotes growth or development; a nutrient.
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