bestiality

Noun

bestiality (countable and uncountable, plural bestialities)

1. Sexual activity between a human and another animal species.
   • Less common, but still frequent, are erect penises, more complete female nudes, copulations, and even scenes of bestiality.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 216
   • Second, the romance option brings up a unique issue: having sex with an alien. It’s somewhat difficult to say what the Christian should think on this issue because, well, the Bible doesn’t talk about aliens. Probably because they don’t exist (sorry to burst your bubble). Would this be considered...2019 October 31, Garrick Beckett, “Beckett: How BioWare Approaches Religion & Sexuality”, in The Lutheran Column, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2020, Blog
2. Bestial nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal's.
   • the pitiful inadequacy of the reforms and the bestiality of the white society1963, James Boggs, The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook
3. (dated) Any abstract entity similar to a beast.
4. (archaic) A status of lower animal.
5. (archaic) An animal-like instinct or behaviour.
6. (archaic) A mark, trait, or emblem of a beast.