natural
adjective
existing in or formed by nature.
quasi-natural
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a word derived from
natural.
Example Sentences
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In 1975, an ex-city engineer named Emmett Wahlman pitched an even more improbable quasi-natural enhancement: a salmon stream running from Capitol Hill along Pike Street and Westlake Avenue to Lake Union.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2018
Not in the sense of “as nature intended,” but quasi-natural.
From Newsweek
Sometimes it means a natural or quasi-natural inclination to do some particular action, in which sense the word is applied to dumb animals.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
It is the protest against mere instinctive or customary virtue, which is but compliance with traditional authority, and compliance with it as if it were a sort of quasi-natural law.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
And the question of the prolonged existence of this comparatively new social phenomenon, either in its present or some modified form, turns, therefore, entirely on the quasi-natural laws of the social body.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
