nature

Noun

• a particular type of thing
  • problems of this type are very difficult to solve
    
  • he's interested in trains and things of that nature
    
  • matters of a personal nature
    

• the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions
  • it is his nature to help others
    

• the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.
  • they tried to preserve nature as they found it
    

• a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe
  • the laws of nature
    
  • nature has seen to it that men are stronger than women
    

• the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
  • it is the nature of fire to burn
    
  • the true nature of jealousy