Characteristic vs Nature - What's the difference?
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Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
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, title= a distinguishable feature of a person or thing
(mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm
(nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
(algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
(lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
* (1800-1859)
*:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)
*:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:
*:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
*1869 , , :
*:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.
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, title= Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kind, sort; character; quality.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
(lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my days of nature
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Oppressed nature sleeps.
(lb) Natural affection or reverence.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?
(obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
As nouns the difference between characteristic and nature
is that characteristic is a distinguishable feature of a person or thing while nature is the natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.As an adjective characteristic
is being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.As a verb nature is
to endow with natural qualities.As a proper noun Nature is
the sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.characteristic
English
(wikipedia characteristic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Synonyms
* distinctive * exclusive * idiosyncratic * indicative * representative * signature * specific * typicalAntonyms
* uncharacteristic * untypicalDerived terms
* characteristic function * characteristicnessNoun
(en noun)- A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.
Synonyms
* attribute * idiosyncrasy * mannerism * quality * tendency * trademark * trait * See alsoDerived terms
* defining characteristicSee also
* mantissaExternal links
* *nature
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Alternative forms
* natuer (obsolete)Noun
How to Be Manipulative, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}