• the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person''s characteristic actions and reactions; "it is his Nature to help others"
• the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized; "it is the Nature of fire to burn"; "the true Nature of jealousy"
• 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"
• the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.; "they tried to preserve Nature as they found it"
• 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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