nurturance vs tending

nurturance and tending both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
nurturance	Yes	No	No	No
tending	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, tending is a hypernym of nurturance; that is, tending is a word with a broader meaning than nurturance:

nurturance: physical and emotional care and nourishment
tending: the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

Other hypernyms of nurturance include aid, attention, care.

nurturance (noun)	tending (noun)
physical and emotional care and nourishment	the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

nurturance (adjective)	tending (adjective)
	(usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward