human condition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhumanandcondition
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human
adjective
uk/ˈhjuː.mən/us/ˈhjuː.mən/
being, relating to, or belonging to a person or to people as opposed ...
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condition
noun
uk/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/us/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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(Definition ofhumanandconditionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhuman condition
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Suffering, healing, and thehumancondition.
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It is a universal feature of thehumancondition.
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It is an inescapable part of thehumancondition.
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They are in part, dare we say, progressive, in that ever-changing approaches to thehumanconditionmimic thehumancondition, not least of all identity.
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The only 'development' in this literature is the gradual revelation of thehumancondition.
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This tension, in turn, ref lects thehumancondition, wherein man is both symbolic and physical.
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One is that psychiatric illness is endemic and that thehumanconditionis mostly intractably unhappy.
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Now, these new resources must be deployed effectively around the universalhumanconditionof mortality.
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Dying is not a rare disease; it is part of thehumancondition.
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Indeed, the vision of thehumanconditioncaptured in the opera is hardly consoling or hopeful.
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But in line 8, day is suddenly personified when endowed with ahumancondition: envy.
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Evil in this respect is not the eternal companion of thehumancondition.
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The twentieth century has witnessed the adoption of many schemes for improving thehumancondition.
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This is the noncontroversial case, or perhaps the assumedhumancondition.
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Seeing like a state: how cer tain schemes to improve thehumanconditionhave failed.
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Our idea of the virtues is so closely tied to thehumancondition.
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Other dimensions that helped us to understand thehumanconditionand human behavior are dismissed.
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Useful perspectives are provided on modernization, social ecology, community planning and thehumancondition.
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This change affected the understanding of thehumanconditionadhered to by members of the company.
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Composers composed an avalanche of musical pieces that relate more to each other than to the commonhumancondition.
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Furthermore, this objective has what most would consider an ethical defect in taking no note of thehumancondition.
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On other occasions, machines act as a medium for the non-human, a threat to thehumancondition.
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This entails that thehumanconditionis not changed as radically by the first human sins as it might seem.
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This theme portrays a flux in thehumanconditionfashioned by some process that is revealed in time.
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