ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Creaturism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Creaturism is a noun meaning animalistic behaviour.

Meaning

animalistic behaviour.

Example Sentences

The selfishness of this sort, with reverence I write it, is no more creaturism than it is creatorism. For a being that acts, whether created or uncreated, must act from some principle; and if that principle is good, the conduct flowing from it must certainly bestow pleasure.
[…] abolitionists failed to take into account […] the negro's native creaturism. After their liberation, the negroes mistook license for liberty. They gathered in the towns, gave themselves over to creature pleasures, and forsook the useful habits of duty which slavery had instilled.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anthropophilia, zoomorphism, adultophilia, anthropophily, animalculism, anthropophagy.

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