animalist

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who believes in the dominance of man's animal nature in behavior.
    — The animalist’s claim that all persons must be animals, if true, will have to be a posteriori truth.
  2. A sensualist.
    — Whether spiritualist or animalist, Baudelaire's representations of sexuality establish contradictions and raise questions that both exemplify the author's dualistic thinking and reveal the unravelling of antithesis in his work.
  3. A painter or sculptor whose primary subject is animals.
    — And in my opinion, the reason we have so few good animalists among modern artists is because the domestication of species and man's development have obscured their deeper visual significance for most of us.
  4. A writer of animal stories.
  5. An animal liberationist.
  6. One who believes that microorganisms cause disease. rare

词形变化

animalists plural

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Etymology tree
English animal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English animalist
From animal + -ist.
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