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STATE OF NATURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wild primitive state untouched by civilization
Example:
they collected mushrooms in the wild
Synonyms:
natural state; state of nature; wild
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("state of nature" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state of nature"):
crudeness; crudity; primitiveness; primitivism; rudeness (a wild or unrefined state)
