WordNet
n. the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect [syn: animality]
Usage examples of "animal nature".
They are operative in earth nature and plant nature and animal nature, as well as in the nature of human beings.
Having once developed this method in the field of plant observation, Goethe was able, with its aid, to establish a new view of animal nature, to lay the basis for a new meteorology, and, by creating his theory of light and colour, to provide a model for a research in the field of physics, free from onlooker-restrictions.
Have you died to your animal nature and come to life as a human incarnation of compassion?
Therefore it is no great thing for them to be of an animal nature, for so also are the beasts.
With the ferocity of his animal nature, with the rage of his human side, he shook Antonietta's attacker, his hands crushing the throat An ominous crack was loud, even with the sea roaring in accompaniment to his rage.
Beside these deities there existed special gods and powers of an animal nature, in which the Indians recognised mysterious power.
I have no doubt but that cold is the source of more sufferance to all animal nature than hunger, thirst, sickness, &.