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ANIMALISTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does animalistic mean?
• ANIMALISTIC (adjective)
The adjective ANIMALISTIC has 1 sense:
1. of or pertaining to animalism
Familiarity information: ANIMALISTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to animalism
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
animalism (the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature)
Derivation:
animalism (preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites)
animalism (the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature)
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