ˈanəməˌlizəm noun
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1.
a. : the aggregate of physical qualities felt to be typical of animals ; especially : buoyant health and vitality and the uninhibited satisfaction of physical drives
the joyous animalism of ancient Greece
b. : extreme preoccupation with the satisfaction of physical drives (as toward sex or food) sometimes accompanied by cruelty and brutality
soldiers who passionately hated their enemies could revert to animalism — Webster Schott
2. : a theory according to which human beings are basically brutes and little or nothing more
a growing animalism that has accompanied the attempt to make social planning the be-all and end-all of human existence — R.M.Weaver