Defn: The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
ANIMALITY
An`i*mal"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. animalité.]
Defn: Animal existence or nature. Locke.
ANIMALIZATION
An`i*mal*i*za"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. animalisation.]
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
ANIMALIZE
An"i*mal*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Animalized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Animalizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. animaliser.]
1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.
2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.