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animality|ænɪˈmælɪtɪ|
[a. Fr. animalité, n. of quality f. animal adj.: see -ity. Cf. humanity, also L. æquālitās, carnālitās.]
1. The sum of the qualities and functions which are the attributes of an animal; the animal nature, constitution, or system; vital power.
1615Crooke Body of Man 40 Then followeth presently a sencelesse dulnes, and a priuation of the Animality, if I may so speake. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 111 Lifesomness or animality. 1796W. Taylor in Month. Rev. XX. 567 Empedocles..had no doubt of the animality of the earth. 1829E. Jesse Jrnl. Natur. 241 That portion of vital air which brisks up animality. 1840Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 490 The luxuriant fulness of blooming animality.
2. The quality or condition of the inferior animals; the merely animal nature, as distinguished from the moral and spiritual; animalhood.
1646S. Bolton Arraign. Errour 158 There is something of animality, of the beast in man. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 14 Every man..hath these two Principles in him..Divinity and Animality, Spirit and Flesh. 1667― Div. Dial. iv. iv. (1713) 294 To gratifie our corrupt Animality. 1836For. Q. Rev. XVII. 166 In woman, humanity, as contradistinguished to animality..has attained its zenith. 1868in F. Lee Valid. Angl. Ord. 494 Sunk in the lowest depths of ignorance and animality. 1878Dowden Stud. Lit. 114 The development of the entire human race from animality and primitive barbarism.
3. Animal nature, animal life, as opposed to that of vegetables or of inorganic matter.
1647H. More Poems 88 It's more plain in animalitie. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Phil. I. x. 429 Without it [fire] there would be neither vegetation, nor animality. 1858T. R. Jones Aquar. Natur. 137 Jussieu..at last declared his complete faith in the animality of these creatures [the Zoophytic races]. 1879Lewes Stud. Psychol. 54 It passes from Vegetality to Animality, and through Animality to Humanity.
4. The animal series, the animal world.
1770Wesley Nat. Phil. (1784) IV. v. viii. §14. 190 [The polypus] is too much an animal to be the last term of animality. 1841Douglas in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club. I. ix. 245 In any class or kingdom of animality. 1869Eng. Mech. 11 June 262/1 Animality has no principle of cohesion by its members. |