the human condition
noun
: part of being a person
The need to be loved is simply part of the human condition.
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This relativist turn in anthropology gained ground in succeeding decades, as the discipline became ever more attentive to the specificity of cultures, and increasingly wary of universal claims about the human condition.
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Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
Classical Grappling with questions of the human condition with no expectation of an answer is an inevitability of life.
—Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 1 May 2026
That’s just the human condition, right?
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Actors show us something about the human condition.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
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Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
Classical Grappling with questions of the human condition with no expectation of an answer is an inevitability of life.
—Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 1 May 2026
That’s just the human condition, right?
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Actors show us something about the human condition.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for the human condition
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“The human condition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20human%20condition. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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