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Definition: Second Nature |
Second NatureNoun1. Acquired behavior that is practiced so long it seems innate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Training; (education); seasoning, second nature, acclimatization; knack; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Second Nature |
| Specialty definitions using "second nature": Habit is Second Nature. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Second Nature (2000) | |
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Blaise Pascal | Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | Habit is second nature. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We observe cats and dogs acquiring the same second nature. |
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Health | With practice, screening for gluten becomes second nature. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
second nature | 200 |
second nature design | 21 |
second nature record | 9 |
second nature screensaver | 8 |
tetra second nature | 8 |
second nature software | 6 |
second nature dog litter | 5 |
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second nature filter | 3 |
quarry critters second nature | 2 |
second nature design quarry critters | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "second nature"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | вторая натура. (various references) | |
Spanish | segunda naturaleza. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: contredanse. | |
-2 letters: ancestored, condensate, contenders, denouncers, encounters, endurances, uncensored, uncorseted, undercoats, undertones, unescorted, unreasoned. | |
-3 letters: aeroducts, anecdotes, ascendent, carotenes, coarsened, coendures, condenser, consented, consenter, construed, contender, countered, courantes, courtesan, cretonnes, croustade, decanters, decorates, denatures, denouncer, denounces, deuterons, duecentos, educators, encounter, encrusted, endurance, entranced, entrances, nectarous, nocturnes, nondesert, nonsecure, ordnances, outdances, outearned, outrances, recounted. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: unconsecrated. | |
+2 letters: counterdemands, counterstained. | |
+4 letters: nondocumentaries, superfecundation. | |
+5 letters: denuclearizations, superfecundations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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