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English
Etymology
From animal + -hood.
Noun
animalhood (uncountable)
- 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.
Translations
the state of being an animal