- accustom yourself to something
- accustomed
- accustomed to something
- adaptability
- adaptable
- bearing
- find your feet idiom
- get into the swing of it/things idiom
- get into your stride idiom
- habituate
- habituated
- learn to live with something idiom
- manner
- plug (something/someone) into something
- settle
- settle down
- settle in
- swing
- used
- weaned
Meaning of second nature in English
second nature | American Dictionary
Using the computer is second nature to me now.
Examples of second nature
second nature
Without innocent victims, the ' second nature ' of such people cannot be fulfilled.
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They exist in a situation where they are permitted the free fulfilment of their ' second nature ' without harming the innocent.
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Because agencies in my theory are explicitly political and strategic players, "institutional politics" is second nature to them.
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In addition, life under those conditions would result in frustration not fulfilment of one's second nature and would result in a progressive loss of being.
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But he would disagree over whether any prescriptions or strategy could, through an effort of will, alter a fully formed second nature.
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A most effective way to teach was by practicing pluralism, doing collective bargaining over and over until it became second nature.
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Like many skills, once learned it becomes second nature and it is easy to assume that it is an ability which everyone has.
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For me, this idea is now second nature.
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This is why incorporating physical dynamics into instruments is a good idea, but one easily overlooked because dynamic control is so much second nature.
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The continued frustration of desires entails the lack of fulfilment of one's second nature and, hence, a loss of being.
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These ideas are insensitive to the notion of a second nature of the holes.
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In addition, life under those conditions would result in frustration, not fulfilment, of one's second nature and would result in a progressive loss of being.
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Not only is this second nature to him: he also knows the advantages that derive from these concepts.
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It's been important to absorb that element so that it becomes second nature rather than feeling your way self-consciously into a folk world.
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We treat it as sort of second nature, as normal behaviour, but it isn't.
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