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English
Etymology
From bestial + -ism.
Noun
bestialism (usually uncountable, plural bestialisms)
- bestiality (sexual intercourse between human and animal)
2011, Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology:John Leedham had the unfortunate distinction of being the last person in Derbyshire to be hanged for a crime other than murder when he was executed for bestialism outside the Derby New County Gaol on 12th April 1833.
- bestialness; quality of being bestial or subhuman