animality

[ an-uh-mal-i-tee ]
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noun
  1. the state of being an animal.

  2. the animal nature or instincts of human beings.

Origin of animality

1
1605–15; animal + -ity, modeled on carnality

Other words from animality

  • non·an·i·mal·i·ty, noun
  • su·per·an·i·mal·i·ty, noun

Words Nearby animality

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How to use animality in a sentence

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

    The Sea | Jules Michelet
  • 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 Art of Letters | Robert Lynd
  • 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.

British Dictionary definitions for animality

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

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