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ANIMAL NATURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does animal nature mean?
• ANIMAL NATURE (noun)
The noun ANIMAL NATURE has 1 sense:
1. the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect
Familiarity information: ANIMAL NATURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
animal nature; animality
Hypernyms ("animal nature" is a kind of...):
nature (the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions)
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