animality
Americannoun
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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
Just as personality captures so many interesting components of what makes humans human, animality does likewise for other species.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
But he traversed distances before he finally found himself a field in which stirred and struggled all human animality.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
Dugatkin writes about how studying animalities can help us understand the costs and benefits associated with certain animal temperaments.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2013
But it’s not just our ape kin that have animalities.
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
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
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 Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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