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animalness

animalness noun: the quality of being animal; animality.

Noun

animalness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being animal; animality.
    • These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]2014, Christopher Watts, Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things, page 101

animalness meaning in Hindi

animalness in Hindi

animalness, animality
हैवानियत haivāniyat

Origin of animalness

From animal (adjective) + -ness.

Questions about animalness

What does animalness mean?
Animalness means the quality of being animal; animality.
What is animalness in Hindi?
Animalness in Hindi is हैवानियत (haivāniyat). See Animalness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is animalness?
Animalness is a noun.

Words near animalness in the dictionary

  1. animalkind
  2. animall
  3. animallike
  4. animalls
  5. animally
  6. animalness
  7. animaloid
  8. animals
  9. animal–industrial complex
  10. animanga
  11. animangas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: animalness (page history and authors); हैवानियत (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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