animality
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Skolimowski, by contrast, consistently emphasizes the animality of EO and, by extension, the donkey’s essential un-knowableness and mystery.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
Bacon, an avowed atheist, shows human life as pure animality.
From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2019
He thinks that personhood is a form of self-imposed dullness and yearns for the vivid openness of animality.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016
Just as personality captures so many interesting components of what makes humans human, animality does likewise for other species.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013
But he traversed distances before he finally found himself a field in which stirred and struggled all human animality.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
