March 21, 2009 - animality
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1word1dayanimality [ an-uh-mal-i-tee]
noun
Definition:
1. The state of being an animal; the characteristics or nature of an animal.
2. Animals considered as a group; the animal kingdom.
3. The physical (or animal) aspect of humans, as opposed to the spirit or intellect .
Origin:
animal (Middle English, from Latin, animāle, neuter of animālis, living, from anima, soul) + -ity (a suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing state or condition, derived from Latin -itas)
Example:
The dog endures the same confinement as human city dwellers and yet remains capable of a joyful animality that human beings fear they have lost forever.
--A Critic at Large: Dog Days (The New Yorker)
noun
Definition:
1. The state of being an animal; the characteristics or nature of an animal.
2. Animals considered as a group; the animal kingdom.
3. The physical (or animal) aspect of humans, as opposed to the spirit or intellect .
Origin:
animal (Middle English, from Latin, animāle, neuter of animālis, living, from anima, soul) + -ity (a suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing state or condition, derived from Latin -itas)
Example:
The dog endures the same confinement as human city dwellers and yet remains capable of a joyful animality that human beings fear they have lost forever.
--A Critic at Large: Dog Days (The New Yorker)
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Date: 2009-03-22 05:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-23 02:37 pm (UTC)a lot of my words aren't the most obscure, I know, but I like the ones I haven't seen before. I knew animal, of course, and animalistic; words like that. for some reason this variant was new to me.