Meanings
nounanimalness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being animal; animality.
These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]
2014, Christopher Watts, Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things, page 101
Origin
From animal (adjective) + -ness.
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animalness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/animalness
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“animalness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/animalness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “animalness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/animalness.
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