NOUN
- the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature
- preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites
How To Use animalism In A Sentence
- The example given is that of the obligation to become a subject, to place oneself above the basic human animalism.
- This view is also sometimes called animalism (e.g., Personal Identity and Ethics
- Their religion, which exhibits features of animism, animalism, anthropomorphism, nature-worship, fetishism, ancestor-worship is under the control, guidance and supervision of the village.
- Animalism had yieded to fanaticism and the bold , roving eye now gleamed with a ferocious righteousness.
- The, ‘Flight or Fight’ mechanism is Mankind's last direct link to animalism, which Civilisation still seeks to expunge from the human psyche.
- One perhaps was ursine chiefly, another feline chiefly, another bovine chiefly; but each was tainted with other creatures, — a kind of generalised animalism appearing through the specific dispositions. The Island of Doctor Moreau
- McCann refuses to sanitize or romanticize sexuality's raw animalism.
- In the eighteenth century madness was seen as either animalism, best controlled by harsh restraint, or as imbalances in bodily humours, treated by bleeding.
- ‘This insanity of his can be excused,’ she said with a glint of animalism in her eyes.
- The main objection to animalism is that it conflicts with the psychological-continuity view.
