animalhood

English

Etymology

animal +‎ -hood

Noun

animalhood (uncountable)

  1. The state or period of being an animal.
    • Henry Ward Beecher
      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.

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