Definition of non-natural in English:
non-natural
adjective nɒnˈnatʃ(ə)r(ə)l
1Not involving or manifesting natural means or processes.
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- The reporting procedure in The Netherlands is a reporting procedure that distinguishes between natural deaths and non-natural deaths, and if it's euthanasia you have to report it as a non-natural death.
- Global warming is generally accepted to be a non-natural phenomenon.
- They want science to be redefined to include non-natural or supernatural explanations for natural phenomena.
- Spirits of the dead are going to wander around where they jumped because they died of non-natural causes.
- On the outside of the house, stucco replaces non-natural materials like vinyl siding.
- Miller testified that, ‘If you invoke a non-natural cause, a spirit force or something like that in your research, I have no way to test it.’
- In essence this Act prohibited non-natural additives on public-health grounds.
- With other breakthroughs in chemistry, it is now possible to synthesize some natural products, like rubber, from non-natural sources.
- I've known moms to be phobic of anything with an appliqué, certain colors, non-natural fibers, or frilly headbands.
- The doctor is then obliged to report the death from a non-natural cause and a review committee will assess whether the doctor has acted in accordance with the due care criteria.
- 1.1Philosophy Existing but not part of the natural world (a term used by G.E. Moore of ethical properties).
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- Broadly conceived, the Naturalistic Fallacy rules out any attempt to treat morality as defined according to some pre-existent reality, whether that reality is expressed in natural or non-natural terms.