animality

Who knows whether this vital circulus of the marine animality is not the starting point of all physical circulus?
The Sea|Jules Michelet
Their civilization offers the spectacle of a fine social animality.
Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas|Remy de Gourmont
In Rousseau or Walt Whitman it amounts to a sort of ecstatic animality that sets up as a divine illumination.
The Art of Letters|Robert Lynd
The rough jostling, the discomfort and pitilessness, the utter animality of it all,—it is hard to conceive it even inadequately.
A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees|Edwin Asa Dix

Thus, all creatures which agree only in presenting the few distinctive marks of animality form the “Kingdom” Animalia.
Man's Place in Nature and Other Essays|Thomas Henry Huxley

British Dictionary definitions for animality

animality

/ (ˌænɪˈmælɪtɪ) /

noun

the animal side of man, as opposed to the intellectual or spiritual

the fact of being or having the characteristics of an animal

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