Meanings
plural zoolatries · alternative zoölatry
- uncountableusuallyThe worship of animals.
Excessive zoolatry and heka practices had always been fundamental aspects of Egyptian religion and lifestyles, but from about the Late Period (c. 747 BC), they increasingly became tinged with fundamentalism and fanaticism.
2004, Simson R Najovits, Egypt, Trunk of the Tree: A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land, →ISBN, page 2271 more example
our souls in infancy are scarred with ancient fears as of big eyes, teeth, fur. This stratum is one of the very richest layers in paleopsychic development, and its outcrops in the many varied zoolatries of savage life[…] [illustrate] the way in which the stages of a child’s development repeat those through which the race has passed.
1904, Granville Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, volume 2, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 222
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 動物崇拜 /动物崇拜
- 動物崇拜 /动物崇拜 (dòngwù chóngbài)worship of animals
Esperanto zoolatrio
- zoolatrioworship of animals
Finnish eläintenpalvonta, zoolatria
- eläintenpalvontaworship of animals
- zoolatriaworship of animals
French zoolâtrie
- zoolâtrieworship of animals
German Zoolatrie
- Zoolatrieworship of animals
Greek ζωολατρία
- ζωολατρία (zoolatría)worship of animals
Japanese 動物崇拝
- 動物崇拝 (dōbutsusūhai)worship of animals
Polish animalizm, zoolatria
- animalizmworship of animals
- zoolatriaworship of animals
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zoolatry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zoolatry
“zoolatry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zoolatry. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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