human nature
Noun
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Noun
human nature (uncountable)
- The fundamental set of qualities, and the range of behaviour, shared by all humans.
- How much innate human nature do you think the human races have left?
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC ↗:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
- French: nature humaine
- German: Menschennatur
- Italian: natura umana
- Portuguese: natureza humana
- Russian: природа человека
- Spanish: naturaleza humana
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