connature

English

Noun

connature (countable and uncountable, plural connatures)

1. (archaic) A common or shared nature or character.
   • 1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology:

     Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness.

   • 1888, Walter Bowers Pillsbury, The Fundamentals of Psychology:

     Nothing is to be said respecting the connature of relations in its various modes, beyond describing it; for the relation of connature is not decomposable into other relations.

Related terms

• connatural

References

• “connature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.