nature vs characteristic

nature and characteristic both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
nature	Yes	No	No	No
characteristic	Yes	Yes	No	No

nature (noun)	characteristic (noun)
the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions	a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized	any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
a particular type of thing	a prominent attribute or aspect of something
the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.	the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2
a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe

nature (adjective)	characteristic (adjective)
	typical or distinctive