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Animalism  n.  The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities or objectives; preoccupation with sensual, physical, or carnal pleasures.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Animalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... find in Rabelais, or in the plays of some of the lesser stars that drew their light from Shakespeare's urn. It is humor or fun such as one expects, let us say, from the peasants of Thomas Hardy, outside of Hardy's books. And, though it be filthy, it yet hath a splendor of mere animalism of good spirits... I would say it is scatalogical rather than erotic, save for one touch toward the end. Indeed, it seems more of Rabelais than of Boccaccio or Masuccio or Aretino—is brutally British rather than lasciviously latinate, ...
— 1601 - Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors • Mark Twain

... secularities, the nimble intellectualities, the specious animalism, the derisive skepticism, the snapping personalities, the witty worldliness, that interlace and constitute the successive cantos of "Don Juan," the passages just quoted and similar ones (they are not many) rise, as above the desires and the discontents, ...
— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert



Words linked to "Animalism" :   school of thought, animalistic, temperament, disposition, ism, philosophical system, physicality



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