Foster vs Undermind - What's the difference?
foster | undermind |
Providing parental care to unrelated children.
Receiving such care
Related by such care
(countable, obsolete) A forester
(uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship
To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
To cultivate and grow something.
To nurse or cherish something.
(obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
The subconscious mind or self.
*1909 , Percy Dearmer, Body and soul :
The unconscious mind; intuition.
*2010 , Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner, Riding the Waves of Innovation :
As a proper noun foster
is , variant of forster.As a noun undermind is
the subconscious mind or self.foster
English
Adjective
(-)Noun
Verb
(en verb)- Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
- (Spenser)
Antonyms
* (cultivate and grow) hinderDerived terms
* fosterable * fosterage * foster-child, foster child * fosterer * foster home * fosterhood * fostering * fosterment * foster parentAnagrams
* * * * ----undermind
English
Noun
(en noun)- The doctor assists the undermind', and his assistance is often utterly indispensable: for instance, he "sets" a broken limb, and gives the ' undermind every assistance, [...]
- Others have named this "tortoise mind" as intuition, or the unconscious, and the id. Caxton goes on to name it the "undermind ."