Nature
WordNet
noun
(1) The complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions
"It is his nature to help others"
(2) The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
"It is the nature of fire to burn"
"The true nature of jealousy"
(3) A particular type of thing
"Problems of this type are very difficult to solve"
"He's interested in trains and things of that nature"
"Matters of a personal nature"
(4) The natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.
"They tried to preserve nature as they found it"
(5) A causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe
"The laws of nature"
"Nature has seen to it that men are stronger than women"
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Etymology
From natur, nature from nature from , future participle from perfect passive participle (g)natus (born), from deponent verb + future participle suffix . Replaced native cunde, icunde "nature, property, type, genus, character" (from ġecynd), lund "nature, disposition" (from lund), burthe "nature, birth, nation" (from ġebyrd and *byrðr).
Noun
- The essential characteristics
- Albert Camus' book Le Mythe de Sisyphe is of a philosophical nature.
- A wild primitive state of being (e.g. the environment or the outdoors; foods; herbs), especially in its essential form, untainted by human or synthetic chemical influence.
- The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe
Related terms
- antenatal
- innate
- nascent
- natal
- nation
- national
- nationality
- native
- nativity
- nativization
- nativism
- natural
- naturism
- naturalism
- perinatal
- prenatal
Adjective
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- Brioche nature ou au sucre?
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