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Answer for the clue "The quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth ", 14 letters:
nutritiousness

Word definitions for nutritiousness in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nutritious \Nu*tri"tious\, a. [L. nutricius, nutritius, from nutrix, -icis, a nurse, nutrire to nourish. See Nurse , Nourish .] Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. -- Nu*tri"tious*ly , adv. -- Nu*tri"tious*ness , n.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth [syn: nutritiveness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. nourishment

Usage examples of nutritiousness.

But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.