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animalism|ˈænɪməlɪz(ə)m|
[f. as prec. + -ism.]
1. The exercise of the animal faculties;
a. in an honourable sense: Animal activity, physical exercise and enjoyment;
b. in depreciation: Mere animal enjoyment, sensuality.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 110 Savage Animalism is nothing, inventive Spiritualism is all. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. Introd. (1878) 6 The ‘healthy animalism’ of the Teutonic mind. 1856R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 204 That snug animalism which some men call happiness. 1868Less. Middle Age 198 A face that expresses pure intellect, and feeling, without a vestige of animalism.
2. The doctrine which views men as mere animals.
1857T. Webb Intell. Locke i. 6 The Philosophy of Sensualism was developed..by Helvetius, into an Animalism, which acknowledged no characteristic difference between man and the lower animals.
3. An embodiment of the mere animal propensities; a wholly sensual being. rare.
1868Tennyson Lucretius 53 Girls, Hetairai, curious in their art, Hired animalisms. 1875Farrar Seekers iii. i. 270 The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms. |