ANIMALIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animalization mean? 

• ANIMALIZATION (noun)
  The noun ANIMALIZATION has 2 senses:

1. a depiction in the form of an animal

2. an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities

  Familiarity information: ANIMALIZATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMALIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A depiction in the form of an animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("animalization" is a kind of...):

delineation; depiction; limning; line drawing (a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

animalisation; animalization; brutalisation; brutalization

Hypernyms ("animalization" is a kind of...):

debasement; degradation (changing to a lower state (a less respected state))