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Noun

human condition ‎(uncountable)

1. (usually preceded by the) The characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality.
   • 1894, Thomas Hardy, "An Imaginative Woman":

     Neither symboliste nor decadent, he was a pessimist in so far as that character applies to a man who looks at the worst contingencies as well as the best in the human condition.

   • 1970, "Alive and Well," Time, 18 May:

     Youth dies. Life hurts. Love warms. Understanding heals. The wounds and balms of the human condition are so commonplace that men eventually experience them without noticing.

   • 2006, S. Mark Heim, Saved from Sacrifice, ISBN 9780802832153, p. 8:

     Christian theology traditionally sees three elements of the human condition that are in need of transformation: sin (estrangement from God), evil (estrangement among humans), and death (mortality, and our estrangement from nature).

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