animality
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“Wolf Play” suggests there’s an animality connecting us that transcends gendered social scripts; kinship and love are wild and don’t play by any rules.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022
Bacon, an avowed atheist, shows human life as pure animality.
From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2019
He thinks that personhood is a form of self-imposed dullness and yearns for the vivid openness of animality.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016
Much of how these animals handle stress in their world is determined by their animality.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013
The religion of life is vaguely struggling with its animality, and that which it at last learns to rule it at first worships.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
