Animalism Definition
ănə-mə-lĭzəm
noun
Enjoyment of vigorous health and physical drives.
American Heritage
The activity, appetites, nature, etc. of animals.
Webster's New World
Indifference to all but the physical appetites.
American Heritage
The doctrine that human beings are mere animals with no soul or spiritual quality.
Webster's New World
The philosophical doctrine that humans are animals in their essential identity and are persons only through their contingent properties.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- physicality
- unspirituality
- swinishness
- nonspirituality
- hylozoism
- hylomorphism
- earthiness
- epiphenomenalism
- earthliness
- physicalism
- pragmaticism
- carnal-mindedness
- atomism
- substantialism
- carnality
Origin of Animalism
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animal + -ism
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