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| Main Entry: | nature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | character, disposition |
| Synonyms: | being, bottom line*, complexion, constitution, description, drift, essence, features, heart*, humor, individuality, like, makeup, meat*, mood, outlook, personality, point, quality, score, stuff, temper, temperament, texture, type, attributes, essentiality, individualism, name of game, name of tune, nature of beast, traits |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | type, kind |
| Synonyms: | anatomy, brand, cast, category, character, color, conformation, description, figure, framework, ilk, shape, sort, species, stripe*, structure, style, variety, way |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth, creation |
| Synonyms: | cosmos, country, countryside, environment, forest, generation, landscape, macrocosm, outdoors, scenery, setting, universe, view, world, megacosm, natural history, seascape |
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| Main Entry: | nature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
artless, characteristic, consistent with nature, constitutional, created, essential, from nature, genuine, indigenous, ingenuous, intrinsic, legitimate, lifelike, native, normal, ontological, original, real, regular, simple, spontaneous, true, unregenerate
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| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
| Synonyms: | act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kind, class |
| Synonyms: | brand, character, extraction, family, feather, genus, ilk, line, lineage, lot, nature, number, pedigree, progeny, race, sort, species, stamp, stock, strain, stripe, type, variety, likes |
| Main Entry: | characteristic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | typical feature, trait |
| Synonyms: | affection, aspect, attribute, badge, bag, bearing, bent, caliber, cast, complexion, component, disposition, distinction, earmark, endowment, essence, essential, faculty, flavor, frame, idiosyncrasy, inclination, individuality, mannerism, mark, mood, nature, originality, peculiarity, personality, point, property, quality, specialty, streak, stripe, style, symptom, temperament, tendency, thing, tinge, tone, trademark, turn, virtue, differentia, lineament, particularity, singularity, thumbprint |
| Antonyms: | abnormality |
| Main Entry: | ethics/ethic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral philosophy, values |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, decency, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, nature, practice, rules of conduct, standard, conventionalities, criteria, ethos, natural law, principles, right and wrong, standards, the Golden Rule |
| Antonyms: | corruption, immorality |
| Main Entry: | frame of mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's mental attitude |
| Synonyms: | attitude, constitution, disposition, humor, makeup, mentality, mood, nature, shape, spirit, spirits, standing, state, temper, temperament, tone, vein, emotions, feelings, inner nature, mindset, state of mind, temporary psychological state |
| Main Entry: | individuality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personality |
| Synonyms: | air, character, complexion, difference, disposition, dissimilarity, distinction, eccentricity, habit, humor, identity, idiosyncrasy, independence, makeup, manner, nature, oddity, oneness, originality, peculiarity, rarity, temper, temperament, unity, way, discreteness, distinctiveness, individualism, ipseity, particularity, seity, selfdom, selfhood, selfness, separateness, singleness, singularity, singularness, uniqueness, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | intent/intention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aim, purpose |
| Synonyms: | animus, bottom line*, design, desire, drift, end, goal, heart, hope, idea, import, meaning, meat*, name of the game*, nature, notion, nub, nuts and bolts*, object, objective, plan, point, project, purport, scheme, score, sense, significance, target, understanding, volition, will, wish, acceptation, conation, intendment, significancy, signification |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mettle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boldness, strength of character |
| Synonyms: | animation, ardor, backbone, bravery, caliber, courage, daring, disposition, energy, fire, force, fortitude, gallantry, grit*, guts*, hardihood, heart*, life*, makeup, moxie, nature, nerve, pluck, quality, resolution, resolve, spirit, spunk, stamina, stamp*, starch, temper, temperament, valor, vigor, vitality, dauntlessness, gameness, indomitability, kidney |
| Notes: | meddle means to intrude or interfere in other people's affairs or business; mettle is the courage and fortitude to carry on; a medal is a piece of metal in the form of a coin intended to be used as an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event |
| Antonyms: | weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | form, pattern |
| Synonyms: | cast, cavity, character, class, depression, description, design, die, frame, image, impression, kind, lot, matrix, model, nature, shape, sort, stamp, type, womb |
| Main Entry: | mystique |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's strong impression |
| Synonyms: | attitude, awe, character, charisma, charm, complex, fascination, glamour, magic, nature, spell, temperament |
| Main Entry: | physique |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | build of human body |
| Synonyms: | anatomy, body, built, character, configuration, constitution, corpus, figure, form, frame, habit, makeup, nature, shape, structure, type, habitus, muscles |
| Main Entry: | sort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | type, variety |
| Synonyms: | array, batch, battery, body, brand, breed, category, character, class, clutch, denomination, description, family, genus, group, ilk, kind, lot, make, nature, number, order, parcel, quality, race, set, species, stamp, stripe, style, suite, likes, likes of |
| Main Entry: | species |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | class, variety |
| Synonyms: | breed, category, collection, description, division, group, kind, lot, nature, number, order, sort, stripe*, type, likes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | temperament |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disposition, personality |
| Synonyms: | attitude, bent, capacity, cast, character, complexion, constitution, ego, frame of mind, humor, idiosyncrasy, inclination, individuality, intellect, kind, makeup, mentality, mettle, mood, nature, outlook, peculiarity, quality, soul, spirit, stamp, structure, susceptibility, temperament, tendency, turn, type, way, distinctiveness, emotions, individualism, inner nature |
| Main Entry: | texture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charactertistics of a surface |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, balance, being, character, coarseness, composition, consistency, constitution, disposition, essence, fabric, feel, feeling, fiber, flexibility, form, framework, grain, make, makeup, nap, nature, organization, pattern, quality, roughness, scheme, sense, smoothness, stiffness, strategy, structure, surface, taste, touch, warp, weave, web, essentiality, fineness, intermixture, tissue, woof |
| Main Entry: | universe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | everything in creation |
| Synonyms: | cosmos, everything, macrocosm, nature, world, natural world |
| Antonyms: | locality |
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