animality
noun
the state of being an animal.
animalities
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pluralof animality.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Dugatkin writes about how studying animalities can help us understand the costs and benefits associated with certain animal temperaments.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2013
Studying animalities is a powerful way to increase our understanding of how natural selection has shaped the bewildering and beautiful diversity of life we see around us.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
But it’s not just our ape kin that have animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
I’m not sure we should be eating them either, but I am sure we should be studying them and other animals, and that we should be learning what we can about animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
Mr. Weiss is more daring, and proclaims a God who arranges creation as it is, and an immortality that drops what to most people constitutes their highly valued possessions—namely, their "animalities" of various kinds.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
