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animalness

noun

Etymology

From animal (adjective) + -ness.

  1. derived from animal
  2. derived from animal
  3. inherited from animal
  4. suffixed as animalness — “animal + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being animal

    The quality of being animal; animality.

    • These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for animalness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA