Nature is innate behavior (behavior not learned or influenced by the environment), character or essence, especially of a human. This is a way of using the word nature which goes back to its earliest forms in Greek. See Nature (Philosophy)

Nature (philosophy)

Nature is a concept with two major sets of inter-related meanings, referring on the one hand to the things which are natural, or subject to the normal working of "laws of nature", or on the other hand to the essential properties and causes of those things to be what they naturally are, or in other...

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Nature versus nurture

Nature versus nurture is a popular phrase used to describe debates over the relative degrees to which one's genetic makeup (nature) and one's life experiences (nurture) influence one's traits or attributes.