animality

English

Etymology

From French animalité[1] or its etymon Late Latin animālitās.[2] By surface analysis, animal +‎ -ity.

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?)

Translations

References

  1. ^ “animality”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  2. ^ “animality, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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