bestiality

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈbɛstʃəlˌlɪtɪ/
• (GenAm) IPA: ˌbɛstʃiˈælɪti
• Rhymes: -ælɪti

Noun

bestiality (plural bestialities)

1. (archaic) A status of lower animal.
2. (archaic) An animal-like instinct or behaviour.
3. (archaic) A mark, trait, or emblem of a beast.

   "What's your bestiality?" (What's your mark?)

4. Sexual activity between a human and another species.
5. (dated) Bestial in nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal: "Man's bestiality to man"
6. (dated) Any abstract entity similar to a beast.

Related terms

• zoophilia

Translations

status of animal

• Finnish: eläimellisyys (fi)
• French: bestialité (fr) f
• Malay: kebinatangan (ms)

• Portuguese: bestialidade (pt) f
• Romanian: bestialitate (ro) f
• Russian: скотство (ru) (skótstvo) n, зверство (ru) (zvérstvo) n

sexual activity

• Finnish: eläimeen sekaantuminen (fi)
• French: zoophilie (fr) f, bestialité (fr) f
• Japanese: 獣姦 (ja) (じゅうかん, jūkan)

• Portuguese: zoofilia (pt) f, bestialidade (pt) f, zoossexualidade (pt) f
• Russian: скотоложество (ru) (skotolóžestvo) n / скотоложство (ru) (skotolóžstvo) n, зоофилия (ru) (zoofilíja) f
• Serbian: skotološtvo n, skotstvo f