Definition of: nature

(nā′chər) noun
1. The character, constitution, or essential traits of a person, thing, or class, especially if original rather than acquired.
2. The physical or psychic constitution or character of persons or things, whether native or acquired: often personified in poetry or figurative prose.
3. The entire material universe and its phenomena.
4. The system of natural existences, forces, changes, and events, regarded as distinguished from, or exclusive of, the supernatural: Man is included in nature.
5. The sum of physical or material existences and forces in the universe.
6. The constitution or inherited or habitual condition and tendencies of man.
7. Theol. The unregenerate state; character unchanged by grace.
8. Obs. Generative energy; genesis; birth. See synonyms under CHARACTER, SORT, TEMPER. [<F <L natura <natus, pp. of nasci be born]