Definition of Animality

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

Exact synonyms: Animal Nature
Generic synonyms: Nature
Derivative terms: Animal

Definition of Animality

1. n. Animal existence or nature.

Definition of Animality

1. Noun. The nature of an animal ¹

2. Noun. The animal kingdom ¹

3. Noun. Any characteristic of animality ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Animality

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animality

animalian
animalic
animalier
animaliers
animalike
animalisation
animalise
animalised cell
animalish
animalism
animalisms
animalist
animalistic
animalists
animalities
animality (current term)
animalization
animalizations
animalize
animalized
animalizes
animalizing
animallike
animally
animalness
animals
animanga
animas
animastic
animat

Literary usage of Animality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste COMTE, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"This brief survey shows us the general Present state imperfection of the study of animality. We of analysis of shall find that even in the department of the ..."

2. Essays on Physiognomy by Johann Caspar Lavater, Thomas Holcroft (1878)
"... from satanical hideousness and malignity to divine exaltation ; from the animality of the frog or the monkey, to the beginning humanity of the ..."

3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... made the ' plastic or spermatic.nature, devoid of all animality or conscious intellectuality, to be the highest principle in the universe. ..."

4. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1867)
"Now let us parallel the above argument: animality, in general, is not determined in ... Only by л second fallacy could it be concluded that animality, ..."

5. The Mental-cure: Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body, Both in by Warren Felt Evans (1886)
"animality. — The Psychical man. —The Spiritual. — Consciousness. — Second Degree. — Thi Rational Mind. — Emancipation of the Intellect from tht Dominion of ..."

6. Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"It is not too much to say that, without this condition, except for this necessity for struggle, man could never have emerged out of animality into humanity, ..."

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