human nature

noun

: the nature of humans

especially : the fundamental dispositions and traits of humans

Examples of human nature in a Sentence

You can't change human nature.

Recent Examples on the Web

The progression from imagination to reality reflects a core aspect of human nature: the desire to shape the world through physical interventions. —Gerui Wang, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024

Matty’s superpower is being able to observe human nature. —Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2024

Around the same time, Boquet and Nagy write, Christian thinkers increasingly came to view emotional feeling as an aspect of human nature that did not necessarily have a moral weight in and of itself. —Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 25 Nov. 2024

Lead actor Garcia-Rulfo, a distant relative of the novel’s author, set out to find the human nature within the disagreeable character. —Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

human nature

noun

: the nature of human beings

especially : the ways of thinking, acting, and reacting that are common to most or all human beings or that are learned in social situations