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'''nature''': the fundamental qualities or characteristics that together define the identity of something; essential character; ''sometimes capitalized as'' Nature, the overall pattern or system of natural objects, existences, forces, events, etc.; also the principle or power that appears to guide it; the entire material universe and its phenomena.

'''nature''': the fundamental qualities or characteristics that together define the identity of something; essential character; ''sometimes capitalized as'' Nature, the overall pattern or system of natural objects, existences, forces, events, etc.; also the principle or power that appears to guide it; the entire material universe and its phenomena.

<br/>[< OF (from Old French) < L (from Latin) ''natura'' < ''natus'', pp. (past participle) of ''nasci'' to be born]

<br/>[< OF (from Old French) < L (from Latin) ''natura'' < ''natus'', pp. (past participle) of ''nasci'' to be born]

:Philosophical naturalists understand the word "Nature" to mean "Existence". By this understanding, if God exists, God is natural, either as part of nature or as nature itself, and potentially the natural cause of all that is natural and of all nature itself, the whole universe in its entirety as the natural foundation of nature and the [[ground of being]], [[pantheism]].

:Philosophical naturalists understand the word "Nature" to mean "Existence". By this understanding, if God exists, God is natural, either as part of nature or as nature itself, and potentially the natural cause of all that is natural and of all nature itself, of the whole universe in its entirety as the natural foundation of nature and the [[ground of being]], [[pantheism]].

:Christians understand the word "Nature" to mean "the physical [[spacetime]] Universe" created by [[God]], the Lord of all existence, the fundamental [[ground of being]].

:Christians understand the word "Nature" to mean "the physical [[spacetime]] Universe" created by [[God]], the Lord of all existence, the fundamental [[ground of being]].