nature

nature
n
1. character, personality, individuality, ego, identity; essence, essential quality, Hinduism, Buddhism. dharma; make-up, qualities, constitution, formation, construction, composition; peculiarity, singularity, idiosyncrasy, genius, particularity.
2. disposition, temperament, temper, complexion, grain, mood, humor, spirit; persuasion, bent, leaning, inclination, proclivity, propensity.
3. kind, class, type, sort; category, genre, order; lot, style, cast, mold, stamp, brand, kidney; grain, make, mark, hue; color, stripe, streak, feather, vein.
4. cosmos, world, universe, creation, wide world, Inf. the whole wide world; natural forces, natural system.
5. primitiveness, wildness, uncultivatedness, roughness, simplicity, naturalness, organicity.
6. by nature
innately, naturally, congenitally, hereditarily; intrinsically, inherently, indigenously, natively; essentially, basically, organically, radically, consitutionally, fundamentally.
7. in a state of nature
nude, naked, unclothed, undressed, bare, uncovered, exposed.

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