animality

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect

From French animalité or its etymon Late Latin animālitās. By surface analysis, animal + -ity.

They all tried to unedge that animality by treating it as a joke, by confronting it with their conspiracies of jocularity. — The Prairie Mother, Arthur Stringer
For whatever her sins and lapses, Helen de Vallorbes had the fine æsthetic appreciations, as well as the inevitable animality, of the great courtesan. — The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance, Lucas Malet
What constitutes animality, we said, is the faculty of utilizing a releasing mechanism for the conversion of as much stored-up potential energy as possible into "explosive" actions. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri

animal nature

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