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ANIMALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animality mean? 

ANIMALITY (noun)
  The noun ANIMALITY has 1 sense:

1. the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellectplay

  Familiarity information: ANIMALITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANIMALITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

animal nature; animality

Hypernyms ("animality" is a kind of...):

nature (the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions)

Derivation:

animal (marked by the appetites and passions of the body)


 Context examples 


She was not frightened, but appalled, rather, at the human animality of it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

All my days had been passed in comparative ignorance of the animality of man.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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