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animality

[an-uh-mal-i-tee] / ˌæn əˈmæl ɪ ti /
NOUN
physicality
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The film, a Times critic’s pick, is a “wild, boldly expressionistic movie” that conveys his animality and un-knowableness.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

He believed “a being who is ashamed of his animality in that very fact proves himself to be more than a mere animal”.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 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

Just as personality captures so many interesting components of what makes humans human, animality does likewise for other species.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013

The dense primeval forests, the dragon-haunted German forests, were sprung up again, fresh and cool and unexplored, nurturing a mighty and fantastic animality.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

Of late, evolutionary behaviorists have turned to studying animalities.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013

I’m not sure we should be eating them either, but I am sure we should be studying them and other animals, and that we should be learning what we can about animalities.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013

Animal behaviorist Jaap Koolhaas has found two coping styles in these animals—which amount to two different animalities, labeled proactive and reactive.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013

Researchers have selectively bred even more dramatically proactive and even more dramatically reactive mice, establishing a genetic underpinning to animalities.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013

Here is one who spends his working hours creating something that seems strange and disquieting and ugly, and devotes his leisure to simple animalities; surely one so utterly unlike ourselves cannot be an artist?

From Art by Clive Bell


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