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单词 animalism
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animalismn.

Brit. /ˈanᵻməlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈanᵻml̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈænəməˌlɪzəm/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: animal n., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < animal n. + -ism suffix. Compare French animalisme animal nature (1826), belief that the embryo is present as a living entity in the sperm (1838). Compare animalist n., animalistic adj. With sense 2 compare animality n.
1. The doctrine that human beings are merely animals.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > naturalism > [noun] > other doctrines and their adherents
Voltairism1776
animalism1798
primitivism1934
1798 T. Dwight Nature & Danger of Infidel Philos. 86 As Animalism and Atheism it [sc. Philosophy] completes the ravage and ruin of man, which, in its preceding forms, it had so successfully begun.
1857 T. E. Webb Intellectualism of 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.
1888 N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 266 Science discovered to man his heritage of animalism, from which he can no more be detached than he can ‘jump off his shadow’.
2007 R. P. George & C. Tollefsen in First Things (Nexis) 1 Dec. So animalism—the view that we are, essentially, human beings, members of the species Homo sapiens—is not only true, but not really in tension with the view that we are also persons.
2. The exercise of the animal faculties.
a. With negative connotations: animal-like response and behaviour; unmoderated brutality or sensuality.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality
beastlinessc1400
beastishness1530
beastlihead1579
bestiality1603
brutality1603
beastlihood1612
ferinenessa1676
doggishness1755
animalism1831
1831 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. 3 140 A boundless duration of Being and Well-being is an Ideal belonging to Appetite alone, and which only the struggle of mere Animalism (Thierheit), longing to be infinite, gives rise to.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 449 The age of selfishness, avarice, gluttony, and animalism has begun.
1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 198 A face that expresses pure intellect, and feeling, without a vestige of animalism.
1938 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 4 Nov. 19/7 There was within him [sc. man] a germ of the divine intelligence which grew to fight and partly overcome that savage animalism from which he set out.
1979 Daily Tel. 3 July 6/7 Iran's religion preached a freedom which aided man's development, and prevented him sinking into the animalism of the Western concept of freedom.
2004 C. D. Johnson Youth Gangs in Lit. ix. 94 Our human nature inclines us to allow brute force, violence, and animalism to triumph over reason and civilization.
b. With positive connotations: natural animal behaviour and activity; physicality; physical energy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun]
greennesseOE
lustinessc1325
forcea1375
vigourc1386
virrc1575
vigour1602
nerve1605
vivacity1649
vis1650
actuosity1660
amenity1661
vogue1674
energy1783
smeddum1790
dash1796
throughput1808
feck1811
go1825
steam1826
jism1842
vim1843
animalism1848
fizz1856
jasm1860
verve1863
snap1865
sawdusta1873
élan1880
stingo1885
energeticism1891
sprawl1894
zip1899
pep1908
jazz1912
zoom1926
toe1963
zap1968
stank1997
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. Introd. p. xix The ‘healthy animalism’ of the Teutonic mind.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. 204 That snug animalism which some men call happiness.
1922 S. Anderson Winesburg Ohio 298 They were both embarrassed and to relieve their embarrassment dropped into the animalism of youth. They laughed and began to pull and haul at each other.
1952 B. Deutsch Poetry in Our Time viii. 225 These broke in upon the artificial eighteenth-century world..and led her back to celebrate the innocent animalism..of childhood.
1998 P. J. Splawn in J. Bobo Black Women Film & Video Artists xi. 204 All the reviews of the show went on and on about this beautiful native creature who had all this African animalism and energy!
3. A quality, attribute, or propensity associated with or resulting from humankind's animal nature.In quot. 18681: a wholly sensual being (rare).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > embodiment of animal sensuality
animalism1854
1854 H. Strickland Trav. Thoughts 145 Absolute moral evil is..the combination of man's intellect with the animalisms, and nothing else.
1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 53 Girls, Hetairai, curious in their art, Hired animalisms.
1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God iii. i. 270 The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms.
1914 H. G. Wells Social Forces in Eng. & Amer. 237 A world of egotisms, animalisms, and brute matter.
1940 C. van Doren Amer. Novel (rev. ed.) xx. 354 Men had fallen out of stride, and been forgotten, and reverted to desperate animalisms.
1987 J. Tashjian in L. Hamalian William Saroyan 100 He sat there..a messianic man who bore within himself uncontrollable animalisms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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