human nature

English

human nature (uncountable)

The fundamental set of qualities, and the range of behaviour, shared by all humans.
How much innate human nature do you think the human races have left?
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
  The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

set of qualities shared by all humans

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