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animalhood

animalhood noun: the state or period of being an animal.

Noun

animalhood (uncountable)

  1. The state or period of being an animal.
    • August 13, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher, "My Yoke is Easy", in Plymouth Pulpit
      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.

Origin of animalhood

From animal + -hood.

Questions about animalhood

What does animalhood mean?
Animalhood means the state or period of being an animal.
What part of speech is animalhood?
Animalhood is a noun.

Words near animalhood in the dictionary

  1. animalculistic
  2. animalculists
  3. animalculous
  4. animalculum
  5. animalesque
  6. animalhood
  7. animalian
  8. animalic
  9. animalicide
  10. animalicides
  11. animalier

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