animalism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality. countable,uncountable
    — Animalism understands the human person and the human animal to be identical. The major appeal of animalism is that it avoids the spatially coincident thinkers discussed earlier.
  2. Animal-like behaviour or appetite; brutality. countable,uncountable
    — The wife is what her husband makes her, and his rude animalism had made her the nervous invalid she was.
  3. In a positive sense: natural animal activity; physicality, natural energy. countable,uncountable
  4. Animal liberation; animal rights advocacy. countable,uncountable
    — For this reason, if before the 1990s animalism was politically nonexistent, much changed after the publication of Animal Liberation.

词形变化

animalisms plural

词汇关系

相关词
animalist speciesism

词源

Etymology tree
English animal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English animalism
From animal + -ism.
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