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Recent Examples of animality This strangeness causes all sorts of internal agitation, an uneasiness about humanity’s closeness to animality. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025 But also, something more intrinsic — something like her animality. Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025 The other characters are getting animalities, as well: Peacemaker gets the eagle, Omni-Man the Hail Mary kaiju from Invincible, and Johnny Cage becomes a shark. Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2024 Meg combined elements of Christie Monteiro, with Bryans Snakeskin Pants (both from Tekken), while dancing in a DDR setting similarly to Ulala from Space Channel 5, fatalities and animalities from MK, with nods to old school games from the Sega Genesis era. Solcyré Burga, TIME, 10 May 2024 Kafka’s fiction is full of animals who resemble people and people who lapse into animality. Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023 The study ventures into the intricacies of scientific and quasi-scientific debates in the 19th century, and treats 19th century science as embedded in a myth featuring divinity, humanity and animality as principal characters. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2012 Haushofer’s inhabiting of animality is remarkably tender and selfless. James Wood, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022 In the short pas de deux of the savages, which came as the finale of the Revue Nègre, there was a wild splendor and magnificent animality. Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for animality
Noun
  • Trump’s allusions to police brutality – the very thing demonstrators were protesting – only seemed to rile them and underscore what was at stake.
    Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
  • The jury has seen his brutality in the harrowing video at the InterContinental Hotel and photographs of her injuries.
    Elizabeth Geddes, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Hope is something that Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri can related to, having explored the dualities of hope and despair (as well as lightness and darkness, and fluidity and animalism) in her spring 2023 collection.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 22 Jan. 2025
  • All of a sudden, that animalism has been incarnated.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • On Tuesday, May 20, the Orange County District Attorney's Office confirmed in a press release that Alejandro Acosta Oliveros was charged with felony animal cruelty and felony theft of a companion animal.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 21 May 2025
  • Turquoise Morton, 38, is charged with abandoning a domestic animal and animal cruelty for allegedly torturing, tormenting, or maiming a dog.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025

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“Animality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animality. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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