upbringing vs nurture

upbringing and nurture both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
upbringing	Yes	No	No	No
nurture	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, upbringing and nurture are synonyms defined as:

upbringing and nurture: helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

Other synonyms of upbringing include breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, raising, rearing.

As nouns, nurture is a hyponym of upbringing; that is, nurture is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than upbringing:

upbringing: properties acquired during a person's formative years
nurture: the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

Other hyponyms of upbringing include breeding, education, training, raising, rearing.

upbringing (noun)	nurture (noun)
helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community	helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
properties acquired during a person's formative years	the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

upbringing (verb)	nurture (verb)
	help develop, help grow
	provide with nourishment
	look after a child until it is an adult