animality
Example Sentences
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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 mythological “solutions” are those which start with the monstrous conception according to which human beings have no proper place in nature but are mixtures of natural and supernatural—unions or combinations of animality and divinity.
From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred
