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
- Its position will be recognized on the vertical line between the frontal and occipital, as it is not an element of energy and success, nor of debility, but simply an element of debasing animalism, which is not destitute of force. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
- This man, good at heart but with a ferocious animalism close at the surface of his being, lying in jail and expectant of nothing less than death, was prevailed upon by the agents of the Iron Heel to throw the bomb in the House of Representatives. Chapter 17: The Scarlet Livery
- When we animals never drink only just enough to satisfy thirst, never eat except when we have genuine appetites, never indulge in any sort of debauch, and never strain excess till we sink into the slough of satiety, shall "animalism" be a word to designate all that men and women dare to do? Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
- In this sublime tangle, Sethe commits an ‘unnatural’ act in order to achieve the eminently cultured end of saving her children from the barbarism, the animalism, of slavery.
- It is difficult to categorize the religion of the tribal people. It is a mixture of many influences including animalism, nature-worship, shamanism, and ancestor worship.
- That first assignment of "tailing" kept him thirty-six hours without sleep, but he stuck to his trail, stuck to it with the blind pertinacity of a bloodhound, and at the end transcended mere animalism by buying a tip from a friendly bartender. Never-Fail Blake
- He had never seen such a display of unadulterated animalism before, and could only wonder what her mother must've been like.
- The exhibit looks at animalism and concepts of femininity, sexual fetishes, seduction, excess, coquetry and class standing.
- I would surmise that the original religion was animalism, leading to the worship of Nature, the Sun and the Moon.
- The only possibly offensive content to Christians here is the religion of animalism and the presence of magic.
