Animalism

Quick meaning: Animalism is a noun meaning (philosophy, ontology) The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality.

Meaning

(philosophy, ontology) The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality.

More Meanings

1. Animal-like behaviour or appetite; brutality.
2. In a positive sense: natural animal activity; physicality, natural energy.
3. Animal liberation; animal rights advocacy.

Example Sentences

The wife is what her husband makes her, and his rude animalism had made her the nervous invalid she was.

For this reason, if before the 1990s animalism was politically nonexistent, much changed after the publication of Animal Liberation.

Animalism understands the human person and the human animal to be identical. The major appeal of animalism is that it avoids the spatially coincident thinkers discussed earlier.

Her organization's website perfectly illustrates the conflation of a religious ethos and animalism: it calls for the protection of cows for ecological reasons while referring to Hindu cosmology (People for Animals 2013).

Word Forms

• animalisms

Synonyms for animalism

Depending on context, synonyms include physicality.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include physicality, atomism, materialism, automatism, theanthroposophy, corporealism.

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