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creaturism

creaturism noun: animalistic behaviour.

Noun

creaturism (uncountable)

  1. animalistic behaviour
    • The selfishness of this sort, with reverence I write it, is no more creaturism than it is creatorism. For a being that acts, whether created or uncreated, must act from some principle; and if that principle is good, the conduct flowing from it must certainly bestow pleasure.1872, Charles Henry Parry, John E. Eardley-Wilmot, A Memoir of the Revd. Joshua Parry: Nonconformist Minister of Cirencester
    • […] abolitionists failed to take into account […] the negro's native creaturism. After their liberation, the negroes mistook license for liberty. They gathered in the towns, gave themselves over to creature pleasures, and forsook the useful habits of duty which slavery had instilled.1906, The Overland Monthly, volume 48, page 446

Origin of creaturism

From creature + -ism.

Questions about creaturism

What does creaturism mean?
Creaturism means animalistic behaviour.
What part of speech is creaturism?
Creaturism is a noun.

Words near creaturism in the dictionary

  1. creatureship
  2. creaturesome
  3. creaturess
  4. creaturesses
  5. creaturish
  6. creaturism
  7. creaturize
  8. creaturized
  9. creaturizes
  10. creaturizing
  11. creaturs

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