animality
Americannoun
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animalities
plural
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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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Etymology
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
Again, as with the orangutans, animality type mattered.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
When his animality becomes established, he exhibits the fundamental anatomical qualities which characterize such lowly animals as polyps and jelly-fish.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by George John Romanes
Dugatkin writes about how studying animalities can help us understand the costs and benefits associated with certain animal temperaments.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2013
And their sortie into simian bliss has shed new light on animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
Researchers have selectively bred even more dramatically proactive and even more dramatically reactive mice, establishing a genetic underpinning to animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
But it’s not just our ape kin that have animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
Here is one who spends his working hours creating something that seems strange and disquieting and ugly, and devotes his leisure to simple animalities; surely one so utterly unlike ourselves cannot be an artist?
From Art by Clive Bell
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