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animalistic

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an·i·mal·ism  (n-m-lzm)
n.
1. Enjoyment of vigorous health and physical drives.
2. Indifference to all but the physical appetites.
3. The doctrine that humans are merely animals with no spiritual nature.
ani·mal·ist n.
ani·mal·istic (-lstk) adj.
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Adj.1.animalistic - of or pertaining to animalism


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