English
Noun
human nature (uncountable)
- The fundamental set of qualities, and the range of behaviour, shared by all humans.
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1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:- 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?
Translations
set of qualities shared by all humans
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 人性 (zh) (rénxìng)
- Dutch: mensenaard m
- Finnish: ihmisluonto
- French: nature humaine f
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- German: Menschennatur f
- Ngazidja Comorian: uɓinadamu class 11 (ubinadamu)
- Spanish: naturaleza humana f
- Volapük: menanatäl
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