the human condition
noun
: part of being a person
The need to be loved is simply part of the human condition.
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Marty was a clear-eyed scholar of the violent elements of the human condition.
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Eboo Patel, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.
—Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
The first season of the first Star Trek built the infrastructure for a half-century (and counting) of cosmic wonder, with 29 episodes that blast the starship Enterprise into the weirdest corners of the galaxy and the human condition.
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s ego, politics, the human condition, man’s yearning for understanding.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Eboo Patel, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.
—Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
The first season of the first Star Trek built the infrastructure for a half-century (and counting) of cosmic wonder, with 29 episodes that blast the starship Enterprise into the weirdest corners of the galaxy and the human condition.
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s ego, politics, the human condition, man’s yearning for understanding.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the human condition
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“The human condition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20human%20condition. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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