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Animality

Animality \An`i*mal"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. animalit['e].] Animal existence or nature.
--Locke.

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animality

n. 1 The nature of an animal 2 The animal kingdom 3 Any characteristic of animality

WordNet
animality

n. the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect [syn: animal nature]

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Animality

Animality may refer to:

  • The essence of animals
  • Animality studies, an academic field focused on the cultural study of animals
  • Animality, a variant of the Fatality in the Mortal Kombat video games

Usage examples of "animality".

She could feel his breath coming in short gasps as she moved her fingers over his body, undressing him, her animality mindless.

According to this portrayal, those were times of animality and barbaric, uncontrolled procreation, of catastrophe both economic and military, and the undeniable achievements of past civilization were presented as an expression of the strength and determination that permitted people to overcome the benightedness and the cruelty of the period: those achievements, then, came about as it were in spite of the prevailing tendency to live at the cost of others.

Pre-Renaissance men, pre-scientific men, medieval men had sat and shouted and thought & Sir Godber shuddered at the superstitions they had entertained as if he could undo the thread of time that linked him to their animality.