animality
Americannoun
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the state of being an animal.
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the animal nature or instincts of human beings.
noun
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the animal side of man, as opposed to the intellectual or spiritual
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the fact of being or having the characteristics of an animal
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Origin of animality
1605–15; animal + -ity, modeled on carnality ( def. )
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The movement for “Afternoon of a Faun” alludes to the two-dimensional choreography of Nijinsky’s dance to that Debussy piece, a nod to a predecessor of Naharin’s stylized animality.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
He believed “a being who is ashamed of his animality in that very fact proves himself to be more than a mere animal”.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2019
He thinks that personhood is a form of self-imposed dullness and yearns for the vivid openness of animality.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016
If you’re an orangutan living in a zoo, you have basically one of two animality types.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013
The religion of life is vaguely struggling with its animality, and that which it at last learns to rule it at first worships.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
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