Crossword-Solution: ANIMALISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Animalism | n. | The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “ANIMALISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | 1 answer |
| preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | 1 answer |
| preoccupation with physical matters | 1 answer |
| Orwellian philosophy | 1 answer |
| Napoleon's philosophy, according to George Orwell | 1 answer |
| Behaviour characteristic of animals | 2 answers |
| sensualism | 3 answers |
| carnal appetite | 5 answers |
| hedonism | 7 answers |
| FAST living | 17 answers |
| life of the senses | 21 answers |
| materialism | 25 answers |
| amorality | 26 answers |
| materiality | 34 answers |
| high living | 41 answers |
| full life | 50 answers |
| Lust | 65 answers |
| diablerie | 65 answers |
| Pain | 67 answers |
| debauchery | 71 answers |
| pollution | 72 answers |
| perversion | 73 answers |
| Enjoyment | 80 answers |
| Badness | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANIMALISM (5)
The fire, as it spurted up, threw fitful lights upon his bold, clear-cut face, with its widely-opened grey eyes, its thick and yet firm lips, and the deep, square jaw, which had something Roman in its strength and its animalism.
His passions were violent and at times uncontrollable, but unlike many remarkable men of a similar temperament, this strong animalism was not in his case accompanied by a capacity for vigorous intellectual exertion or a great power of work.
She was able to muster a grateful smile; for she felt a rare kindness of heart under the familiar animalism to which good-looking, well-formed women who go about much unescorted soon grow accustomed.
Early in the eighteenth century Vico presented the philosophy of history as an upward movement of man out of animalism and barbarism.
The fire, as it spurted up, threw fitful lights upon his bald, clear-cut face, with its widely-opened grey eyes, its thick and yet firm lips, and the deep, square jaw, which had something Roman in its strength and its animalism.
Quotes with ANIMALISM (2)
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.
The animalism of the brute nature in man is disgusting', he thought, 'but as long as it remains in its naked form we observe it from the height of our spiritual life and despise it; and - whether one has fallen or resisted - one remains what one was before. But when that same animalism hides under a cloak of poetry and aesthetic feeling and demands our worship - then we are swallowed up by it completely and worship animalism, no longer distinguishing good from evil. Then it is awful!
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Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).