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Animalism

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Noun
  1. 1
    The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality. countable, uncountable

    "Animalism understands the human person and the human animal to be identical. The major appeal of animalism is that it avoids the spatially coincident thinkers discussed earlier."

  2. 2
    preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites wordnet
  3. 3
    Animal-like behaviour or appetite; brutality. countable, uncountable

    "The wife is what her husband makes her, and his rude animalism had made her the nervous invalid she was."

  4. 4
    the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature wordnet
  5. 5
    In a positive sense: natural animal activity; physicality, natural energy. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Animal liberation; animal rights advocacy. countable, uncountable

    "For this reason, if before the 1990s animalism was politically nonexistent, much changed after the publication of Animal Liberation."

Etymology

From animal + -ism.

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