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BESTIALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bestiality mean?
• BESTIALITY (noun)
The noun BESTIALITY has 2 senses:
1. the stupid brutal quality of a beast
2. sexual activity between a person and an animal
Familiarity information: BESTIALITY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The stupid brutal quality of a beast
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("bestiality" is a kind of...):
inhumaneness; inhumanity (the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others)
Derivation:
bestial (resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sexual activity between a person and an animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
bestiality; sodomy; zooerastia; zooerasty
Hypernyms ("bestiality" is a kind of...):
sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)
Context examples
Not even the bestiality of the allusion could bring him back to earth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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