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View synonyms for animality

animality

[ an-uh-mal-i-tee ]

noun

  1. the state of being an animal.
  2. the animal nature or instincts of human beings.


animality

/ ˌænɪˈmælɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the animal side of man, as opposed to the intellectual or spiritual
  2. the fact of being or having the characteristics of an animal
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • nonan·i·mali·ty noun
  • super·ani·mali·ty noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of animality1

1605–15; animal + -ity, modeled on carnality ( def )
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Example Sentences

Who knows whether this vital circulus of the marine animality is not the starting point of all physical circulus?

Their civilization offers the spectacle of a fine social animality.

In Rousseau or Walt Whitman it amounts to a sort of ecstatic animality that sets up as a divine illumination.

The rough jostling, the discomfort and pitilessness, the utter animality of it all,—it is hard to conceive it even inadequately.

Thus, all creatures which agree only in presenting the few distinctive marks of animality form the “Kingdom” Animalia.

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