animality

English

Etymology

From French animalité, from Late Latin animālitās.

Noun

animality (countable and uncountable, plural animalities)

1. The nature of an animal.
   • 2015, J. M. Bernstein, Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury, page 170:

     For good reason military leaders attempt to instill in their troops beliefs about the nonhumanity—the bestiality or animality or verminlike character—of the enemy.

2. The animal kingdom.
3. Any characteristic of animality. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

• animal

Translations

nature of an animal

• Arabic: حَيَوَانِيَّة f (ḥayawāniyya)
• Finnish: eläimellisyys (fi)
• Ido: animaleso (io)
• Latin: animalitas f

animal kingdom — see animal kingdom

characteristic of animality

• Finnish: eläimellinen piirre
• French: animalité (fr) f
• Polish: animalizm (pl) m, zwierzęcość (pl) f