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animality

/an-uh-mal-i-tee/US // ˌæn əˈmæl ɪ ti //UK // (ˌænɪˈmælɪtɪ) //

动物性,动物学

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being an animal.
    • : the animal nature or instincts of human beings.
    • : animal kingdom.

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Examples

  • Who knows whether this vital circulus of the marine animality is not the starting point of all physical circulus?

  • Their civilization offers the spectacle of a fine social animality.

  • In Rousseau or Walt Whitman it amounts to a sort of ecstatic animality that sets up as a divine illumination.

  • The rough jostling, the discomfort and pitilessness, the utter animality of it all,—it is hard to conceive it even inadequately.

  • Thus, all creatures which agree only in presenting the few distinctive marks of animality form the “Kingdom” Animalia.