simian
noun
any of the monkeys or apes, classified into two subdivisions, the platyrrhines (New World monkeys) and the catarrhines (Old World monkeys and apes, including humans).
simianity
-
a word derived from
simian.
Example Sentences
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In the end, it was only the perversity of fate and their common simianity that brought them down.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet though his will be iron, he cannot help now and then resuming his humanity or simianity in face of a fear.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
