Etimology
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. Unetymological change in spelling due to confusion with conditio.
noun
condition (countable and uncountable, plural conditions)
A state or quality.
A requirement.
A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
(law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
Examples
National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.
Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened.
Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.
A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
[T]his Zeal was now inflamed by Lady Bellaſton, who had told her the preceding Evening, that ſhe was well ſatiſfied from the Conduct of Sophia, and from her Carriage to his Lordſhip, that all Delays would be dangerous, and that the only Way to ſucceed, was to preſs the Match forward with ſuch Rapidity, that the young Lady ſhould have no Time to reflect, and be obliged to conſent while ſhe ſcarce knew what ſhe did. In which Manner, ſhe ſaid, one half of the Marriages among People of Condition were brought about.
Synonym: fettle
My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
What other planets might have the right conditions for life?
The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment.
Related words
synonyms
(requirement): requisite, necessity
hyponyms
human condition
interesting condition
Marshall-Lerner condition
mint condition
necessary condition
precondition
sufficient condition
underlying condition
verb
condition (third-person singular simple present conditions, present participle conditioning, simple past and past participle conditioned)
To subject to the process of acclimation.
To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
(transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
(transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
(transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
(transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
(US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
Examples
I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.
The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.
[P]ay me back my credit, / And I'll condition wi'ye.
[I]t was conditioned betweene Saturne and Titan, that Saturne being a yonger brother, and raigning , by Titans permiſſion, he ſhould put to death all his male children, leaſt the Titans might be interrupted by any of them in their ſucceſſion; which agreement becauſe Saturne performed in his firſt borne, it is fained that Saturne deuoured his owne children.
divers parcel of silk conditioned or assayed
to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
"To think is thus to condition," because it is to know this or that object, and this or that object in a particular mode or condition.