Meaning of ANIMALISM
| Pronunciation: | | 'anumu`lizum
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- [n] preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites
- [n] the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature
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| | Synonyms: | | physicality |
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| | See Also: | | disposition, doctrine, ism, philosophy, school of thought, temperament | |
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| | Definition: | | \An"i*mal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. animalisme.]
The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal
life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
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| | Related Terms: | | Adam, animality, atomism, beastliness, behaviorism, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, carnal nature, carnality, carnal-mindedness, coarseness, commonsense realism, dialectical materialism, earthiness, earthliness, empiricism, epiphenomenalism, fallen nature, fallen state, flesh, fleshliness, grossness, historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, lapsed state, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, licentiousness, lustfulness, Marxism, materialism, mechanism, natural realism, naturalism, new realism, nonspirituality, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy, positivism, postlapsarian state, pragmaticism, pragmatism, realism, representative realism, secularism, sensualism, sensuality, substantialism, swinishness, temporality, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, the Old Adam, unchastity, unspirituality, voluptuousness, worldliness |
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