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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Skolimowski, by contrast, consistently emphasizes the animality of EO and, by extension, the donkey’s essential un-knowableness and mystery.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Bacon, an avowed atheist, shows human life as pure animality.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 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
Animal behaviorist Jaap Koolhaas has found two coping styles in these animals—which amount to two different animalities, labeled proactive and reactive.
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
And their sortie into simian bliss has shed new light on animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
Of late, evolutionary behaviorists have turned to studying 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
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