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What is second nature?

What is second nature? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) 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.
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Now she's studying him carefully, locking his face into her mind in an exercise which is already becoming second nature.
And having achieved his narrow victory, the famous flip-flop on fundamental issues was second nature to him.
The inescapable conclusion was that, by the time the better players graduated to senior level, it would all be second nature to them.
Make it second nature for someone who is overweight to blame the restaurant that served him fries.
We become just or temperate by acting justly or temperately and the practice of these actions makes them second nature to us.
The leading of our eyes to some lustrous or roseate goal is second nature to them.

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