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
He believed “a being who is ashamed of his animality in that very fact proves himself to be more than a mere animal”.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 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
Again, as with the orangutans, animality type mattered.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013
Why, they call one divine and the other bestial, representing divinity and animality as two poles, between which they place humanity.
From God and the State by Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.