animalism

English

noun
Definitions
  • The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality.
  • The enjoyment of physical appetites.
  • (philosophy) A theory of personal identity which holds that persons are individual organisms of the species Homo sapiens, and the conditions of our persistence and identity are simply those of animals.

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Suffix from English animal.

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animal

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