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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“Wolf Play” suggests there’s an animality connecting us that transcends gendered social scripts; kinship and love are wild and don’t play by any rules.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 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
If you’re an orangutan living in a zoo, you have basically one of two animality types.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
For Scriabine appears to have wakened in the piano all its latent animality.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
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
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
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
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
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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