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an·i·mal·i·ty

 (ăn′ə-măl′ĭ-tē)
n. pl. an·i·mal·i·ties
1. The characteristics or nature of an animal.
2. Animals considered as a group; the animal kingdom.
3. The animal instincts of humans as distinct from their spiritual nature.
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animality

(ˌænɪˈmælɪtɪ)
n
1. the animal side of man, as opposed to the intellectual or spiritual
2. the fact of being or having the characteristics of an animal
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an•i•mal•i•ty

(ˌæn əˈmæl ɪ ti)

n.
1. the state of being an animal.
2. the animal nature or instincts of human beings.
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animality

1. the state of being an animal.
2. animal existence or nature in human activity; the animal in man as opposed to the spiritual.
See also: Animals
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.animality - the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellectanimality - the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect
nature - the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions; "it is his nature to help others"
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animality

noun
A preoccupation with the body and satisfaction of its desires:
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animality

[ˌænɪˈmælətɪ] Nanimalidad f
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animality

nTierhaftigkeit f
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(21) If there is no essential animal nature common to all nonhuman animals but complex and varied animalities particular to various species, Calarco asks, '[d]o not "human beings" belong to this multiplicity of beings and relations?' (22) In other words, there can be no human nature or subjectivity that stands above or apart from animality precisely because animality is much more complex than humans have allowed in the first place; and, furthermore, human beings are part of this complex 'multiplicity'.
In hierarchizing all life forms, with humans at the top of a vertical pyramid, the humanist tradition (here, specifically in medieval and early modern Britain) has elided the ontological intersections of human and nonhuman, the "similitudes and distinctions," as Harvey puts it, of interlocking animalities. Humanism thus has contributed to what Agamben calls the "anthropological machine," the insistent line drawing that seeks to establish higher and lower species rather than cope with the threat of "a zone of indistinction." (11) Even in a post-structuralist intellectual environment (as animal studies is especially well situated to remind us) humanism cannot be safely bracketed as an historical phenomenon.