connature
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
connature (countable and uncountable, plural connatures)
- (archaic) A common or shared nature or character.
- 1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology:
- Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness.
- 1888, Walter Bowers Pillsbury, The Fundamentals of Psychology:
- Nothing is to be said respecting the connature of relations in its various modes, beyond describing it; for the relation of connature is not decomposable into other relations.
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References[edit]
- “connature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.