animalhood

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English

Etymology

From animal +‎ -hood.

Noun

animalhood (uncountable)

  1. The state or period of being an animal.
    • August 13, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher, "My Yoke is Easy", in Plymouth Pulpit
      The moral development of man is manhood; and all below that is animalhood, which we have in common with the brute creation. All our duties, then, are in accordance with our nature.

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