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animalization

animalization noun: the act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.

Noun

animalization (countable and uncountable, plural animalizations)

  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
  2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation.
    • The raw material of this restoration is derived from without : the alimentary canal , in which the conversion and animalisation of the food take place , is provided , in the Vertebrata , with two apertures1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals

Forms of animalization

pluralanimalizations
alternative formanimalisation

Origin of animalization

Compare French animalisation.

Questions about animalization

What does animalization mean?
Animalization means the act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
What part of speech is animalization?
Animalization is a noun.
What is the plural of animalization?
The plural of animalization is animalizations.

Words near animalization in the dictionary

  1. animalivore
  2. animalivores
  3. animalivorous
  4. animalivorousness
  5. animalivory
  6. animalization
  7. animalizations
  8. animalize
  9. animalized
  10. animalizes
  11. animalizing

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