human condition

noun
/hjʉwmənkənˈdɪʃən/

Definitions

  1. What it means to be human

    What it means to be human; the experiences, characteristics, and limitations of life shared by all humans, as opposed to other lifeforms.

    • Neither symboliste nor decadent, he was a pessimist in so far as that character applies to a man who looks at the worst contingencies as well as the best in the human condition.
    • Youth dies. Life hurts. Love warms. Understanding heals. The wounds and balms of the human condition are so commonplace that men eventually experience them without noticing.
    • Christian theology traditionally sees three elements of the human condition that are in need of transformation: sin (estrangement from God), evil (estrangement among humans), and death (mortality, and our estrangement from nature).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for human condition. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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