Crossword clues for second nature
second nature
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin secundum naturam "according to nature" (Augustine, Macrobius, etc.), literally "following nature;" from medieval Aristotelian philosophy, contrasted to phenomena that were super naturam ("above nature," such as God's grace), extra naturam ("outside nature"), supra naturam ("beyond nature," such as miracles), contra naturam "against nature," etc.
Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A mindset, skill, or type of behavior so ingrained through habit or practice that it seems natural, automatic, or without a basis in conscious thought.
WordNet
n. acquired behavior that is practiced so long it seems innate
Wikipedia
Second Nature may refer to:
Musical recordings:
- Second Nature (Katherine Jenkins album), 2004
- Second Nature (The Young Gods album), 2000
- Second Nature (Margaret Urlich album), 1999
- Second Nature (Flying Colors album), 2014
- "Second Nature" (Dan Hartman song), 1985 (from the 1984 album I Can Dream About You)
- "Second Nature" (Electronic song), 1997
- "Second Nature" (Rush song)
Musical artists:
- 2nd Nature (TLC), American girl group TLC, also known as 2nd Nature
- 2nd Nature (boy band), African-American contemporary R&B group
- Uwe Schmidt (born 1968), or Second Nature, German composer, musician and producer of electronic music
Other uses:
- Second Nature (2003 film), a 2003 TV film directed by Ben Bolt
- Second Nature (2009 film), a 2009 short film by Colin Blackshear
- Second Nature (book), a book by Michael Pollan
- Second Nature Recordings, a record label
- Second Nature Improv, a theatre troupe at the University of Southern California
"Second Nature" is a song by Electronic, released as the group's seventh single. It has an autobiographical lyric by Sumner which concerns his youth and growing up, while the music has a groovy shuffle which contrasts with the stricter dance tracks on its parent album Raise the Pressure. "Second Nature" reached #35 on the UK Singles Chart.
Second Nature is the fifth album by Industrial band The Young Gods.
Second Nature is the second album by Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins, released on 18 October 2004, in the UK. It charted at number 16 on the UK Albums Chart and at number 1 on the UK Classical Album Chart.
The album was released as La Diva in 2005 in the US and Canada. It peaked at #16 on the US Classical Albums chart.
Second Nature is a short film about skateboarding created for Sector 9 Skateboards.
Second Nature is the fifth solo album (fourth studio album) by Margaret Urlich, released in May 1999 - her last album to date. Second Nature was produced by Eddie Rayner from Split Enz and was recorded on and off over 12 months and involved musicians from Australia and New Zealand. The album comprised cover versions of some of Urlich's favourite New Zealand songs that she grew up with. These included artists like Split Enz, Crowded House, Dave Dobbyn, Max Merritt, Shona Laing, Don McGlashan and Tim Finn. The album achieved platinum status in New Zealand.
Second Nature is a 2003 mystery-drama-science fiction television film directed by Ben Bolt starring Alec Baldwin, Powers Boothe and Louise Lombard. It was written by E. Max Frye and released on 4 October 2003 in the United Kingdom.
"Second Nature" is a song by American musician-singer-songwriter Dan Hartman, released as the fourth and final single from his 1984 album I Can Dream About You. The single was released in early 1985.
Second Nature is a collaborative album by Atom Heart, Tetsu Inoue and Bill Laswell. It was released on August 14, 1995 by FAX +49-69/450464.
Second Nature is the second studio album by the American supergroup Flying Colors, that was released on 29 September 2014 (Europe/UK) and 30 September 2014 (US). On August 19, Loudwire premiered the video for the album's first single "Mask Machine". Soon after, Classic Rock premiered the song for Europe. On September 22, the entire album began streaming on the Prog magazine website.
Before the album release, drummer Mike Portnoy said it would benefit from a bigger "chemistry" between members:
The band's experience with Peter Collins was overwhelmingly positive. For Second Nature, the band decided not to work with a producer because they wanted to experiment with working on their own.
Usage examples of "second nature".
It wasn't yet second nature to Jonathan, which produced friction every now and then, or sometimes more often than every now and then.
He was not a Foundation man and the interplay of forces at the twist of a knob or the breaking of a contact was not second nature to him.
Trying to adjust to the idea that he had once used all this stuff by second nature.
As a young man, he had found distinguishing between debriefing and confession very difficult, but now it was second nature.
I must first of all call the reader's attention to one or two rules which every conjurer learns at the commencement of his study, and which he learns to apply so constantly that it becomes second nature to him.
How surely do the habits of a lifetime become second nature to us!
Not the travel, the vulnerability, the inability to use the magic that had long ago become second nature.