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condition Definition

con·di·tion (kən dis̸h′ən)

noun

  1. anything called for as a requirement before the performance or completion of something else; provision; stipulation to impose conditions by contract
  2. anything essential to the existence or occurrence of something else; prerequisite hard work is a condition of success
  3. anything that modifies or restricts the nature, existence, or occurrence of something else; external circumstance or factor conditions were favorable for business
  4. manner or state of being
    1. state of health what's the patient's condition?
    2. an illness; ailment a lung condition
  6. a proper or healthy state athletes train to be in condition
  7. social position; rank; station
  8. Obsolete
    1. disposition of mind; character
    2. characteristic; trait
  9. ☆ Educ.
    1. the requirement that a student make up deficiencies in a certain subject in order to pass it
    2. the grade stating this requirement
  10. Gram. a clause expressing a condition, as one beginning with if
  11. Law a clause in a contract, will, etc. that revokes, suspends, or modifies one or more of its stipulations upon the happening of an uncertain future event
  12. Logic a proposition on which the truth of another proposition depends

Etymology: ME & OFr condicion < L condicio, agreement, situation < condicere, to speak with, agree < com-, together + dicere, to speak: see diction

intransitive verb

Archaic to make conditions; bargain (with)

transitive verb

  1. to set as a condition or requirement; stipulate
  2. to impose a condition or conditions on
  3. to be a condition of; determine
  4. to affect, modify, or influence
  5. to bring into a proper or desired condition
  6. ☆ Educ. to give a grade of condition () to
    1. Psychol. to develop a conditioned reflex or behavior pattern in (a person or animal)
    2. to cause to become accustomed (to something)

condition Related Forms
con·di′·tioner noun
condition Idioms

on condition that

provided that; if

condition Synonyms

condition

n.

  1. A state

    situation, position, status; see state 2.

  2. A requisite

    stipulation, contingency, provision; see circumstance 1, requirement 1.

  3. A limitation

    restriction, qualification, prohibition; see limitation 2, restraint 2.

  4. State of health

    physical state, fitness, lack of fitness, tone, form, trim, shape*; see also health 1, 2.

  5. *Illness

    ailment, infirmity, malady; see disease. See syn. study at state.

condition Synonyms

condition

v.

adapt, modify, accustom, work out; see practice 1, train 3, 4.

condition Law Definition

n

  1. A prerequisite or stipulation in an instrument.
  2. A future and uncertain event, fact, or circumstance whose existence or occurrence is necessary for the existence or determining the extent of an obligation or liability. See also estate and fee simple.
concurrent condition
A condition precedent that must exist, occur, or be performed at the same time as another, but separate, condition before a duty or obligation arises.
condition precedent
A condition (other than lapse of time) that must exist, occur, or be performed before a liability or obligation arises.
condition subsequent
A condition that, if it occurs or comes into existence, will extinguish a duty or obligation.
condition Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • employment: For both positions NATS offers competitive salaries and very good conditions of employment.

Object

  • air: Guests can relax in our fully licensed, fully air conditioned bar.

Converse of object

  • impose: Our agreements with other vendors typically impose similar conditions.
  • attach: The main character, Dake, is given the promise of a new life but, of course, with conditions attached.
  • satisfy: Description UPDATE changes the values of the columns specified for all rows which satisfy condition.
  • pre-exist: A pre-existing condition does not mean that you would automatically be excluded from participating.
  • improve: The WHO source said that civil society in general should improve conditions of hygiene in the city.
  • treat: Some anti sickness drugs are drugs normally used to treat other conditions.

Adjective modifier

  • medical: What medical conditions exclude patients from implant care within our clinic?
  • poor: We found one ISP in a pretty poor condition.
  • certain: The Mental Health Act allows the detention of people in hospital under certain conditions.
  • chronic: This is a serious, chronic condition that affects a large number of people, mainly the elderly, around the world.
  • excellent: The set is complete in excellent condition with original box.
  • adverse: He enjoyed the same result in adverse conditions during his early karting years.

Noun used with modifier

  • weather: Weather conditions convince the list last quot we'd come.
  • skin: But soft lasers energize the skin cells and greatly improve skin condition, making it more elastic, flexible and youthfully smooth.
  • boundary: Special emphasis has been laid on the implementation of the boundary conditions for free surface topography.
  • living: It is not always easy to locate individuals who are experiencing fuel poverty because of their cold, damp living conditions.
  • snow: In snow conditions watch out for skiers and snowboarders.
  • lighting: Select a suitable color for your lighting condition or your preference.
condition Quotes

The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

—Mill,John Stuart

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditionöa desire which†comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

—Smith, Adam

A feeling generally exists that the condition and disposition of the Working Class is a rather ominous matter at present; that something ought to be said, something ought to be done, in regard to it.

—Carlyle,Thomas

The unexempt condition By which all mortal frailty must subsist, Refreshment after toil, ease after pain.

—Milton,John

The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

—Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber

Any work that aspires, however humbly, tothe condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

—Korzeniowski

   Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o  u' il doit enfin accepter d'e"  tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

—Anouilh,Jean

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

—Mill,John Stuart

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

—Mill,John Stuart

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

—Graves, Robert von Ranke

The poet knowshimselfonlyonthe conditionthatthings resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, theyand he come forth together out of sleep.

—Maritain,Jacques

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

—Curran,John Philpot

The fact of affluence is indisputable† Nevertheless, not manyof us feel that well off.The instinct forcontentment seemstohave withered even as oureconomic condition has radically improved.

—Krasna, Norman

Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

—Cooper,James Fenimore

He passed rapidly through his marriages toVirginia Cherrill,Barbara Huttonand Betsy Drakeand filled inthe lonely gaps between them by falling in and out of love with most of his leading ladies, which, as his output of films was prodigious, underlined the excellence of his physical condition.

—Niven, David originally James David Graham Nevins

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

—Pepys, Samuel

Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise¤  rable: il est donc mise¤  rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.

—Pascal, Blaise

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn and quarteredöwhich was done thereöhe looking as cheerfully as any man could do in that condition† Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at Whitehall and to see the first blood shed in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross.

—Pepys, Samuel

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie¤  tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

—Pascal, Blaise

Civilisation is a movement and not a condition; a voyage and not a harbour.

—Toynbee, Arnold Joseph

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? as they must be if the being subjected to the inconsistent, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of men, be the perfect condition of slavery? and if the essence of freedom consists, as our masters say it does, in having a standing rule to live by? And why is slavery so much condemnedandstroveagainst inonecase, andsohighly applauded, and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

—Astell, Mary

Sin duda la cercan|¤a de la muerte y la fraternidad de las armas producen, en todos los tiempos y en todos los pa|¤ses, una atmo¤  sfera propicia a lo extraordinario, a todo aquello que sobrepasa la condicio¤  n humana y rompe el c|¤rculo de soledad que rodea a cada hombre. No doubt the nearness of death and the brotherhood of men-at-wars, at whatever time and in whatever country, always produce an atmosphere favorable to the extraordinary, to all that rises above the human condition and breaks the circle of solitude that surrounds each one of us.

—Paz, Octavio

All art constantlyaspires towardsthe condition of music.

—Pater,Walter

War is a condition of progress; the whip-cut that prevents a country from going to sleep and forces satisfied mediocrity to shake off its apathy.

—Renan, (Joseph) Ernest

It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

—Hopper, Edward