animalness

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There are some expressions of life that are as much vegetable as animal, or that represent the merging of animalness and vegetableness.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

Animality -- N. animal life; animation, animality†, animalization†; animalness, corporeal nature, human system; breath. flesh, flesh and blood; physique; strength &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

For instance nothing can be proved to be an animal—because animalness and vegetableness are not positively different.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles