animalhoodn.
/ˈanᵻməlhʊd/, /ˈanᵻmlhʊd/, U.S. /ˈænəm(ə)lˌ(h)ʊd/ The state or condition of being an animal, or of being brutish like an animal (cf. animal n. 2).
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brutality1711
animalness1730
bestial1785
beastship1828
beasthood1837
brutehood1852
animalhood1863
beastdoma1876
brutedom1890
1863 Reader Nov. 537 A creature almost lapsed from humanity into animalhood.
1925 Times 20 Nov. 17/5 May we not surmise, too, that his worship of healthy animalhood was the unconscious tribute of a sick man?
1966 L. Mumford Myth of Machine 11 The mischances that followed man's quitting mere animalhood were many, but the rewards were great.
1989 Mind 98 156 Wiggins formulates a neo-Lockean account of persons which incorporates animalhood as part of a sufficient condition for being a person.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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