Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making into an animal, or of endowing with animal attributes; the act of representing (a higher being) under the form of an animal, as bearing its characteristic part, or as having its lower instincts and tastes.
- noun The process of rendering or of becoming animal or degraded in life or habits; the state of being under the influence of animal instincts and passions; brutalization; sensualization.
- noun Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation.
- noun The process of giving to vegetable fiber the appearance and quality of animal fiber. See
animalize . - noun Population by animals; the number and kind of animals in a given place or region.
- noun Also spelled
animalisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
- noun Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
animalizing ; the giving ofanimal life , orendowing with animal properties. - noun Conversion into animal matter by the process of
assimilation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a depiction in the form of an animal
- noun an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities
Etymologies
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Examples
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In this regard, Kojève is oddly sympathetic towards Japan, and he predicts that the Japanization (or snobbery) of Westerners will prevail over Americanization (or animalization).
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Azuma Hiroki on Postmodernism 2009
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As I explain further in the following chapter, Kojève is known for ascertaining two different types of possible social formation in the postmodern era: the animalization of society as seen in the U.S. model and the spread of snobbery as illustrated in the Japanese model.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Azuma Hiroki on Postmodernism 2009
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If so, why are brilliant politicians smiling at human-animalization process?
Debilitated People, Powerful Rulers:Searching Roots of Global Politics 2008
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These studies had a great analogy, for man is to a great degree composed both of the substances on which animals feed, and was also forced to look in the vegetable kingdom for affinities susceptible of animalization.
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A discerning one might easily regard himself at present as the animalization of God.
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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Certainly; it is the basis, you have seen, of all vegetable matter; and you will find that it is very essential to the process of animalization.
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For from this point flow, as in opposite directions, the two streams of vegetation and animalization, the former characterised by the predominance of magnetism in its highest power, as reproduction, the other by electricity intensified — as irritability, in like manner.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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It will be sufficient to explain my reason for having assigned it to them, by the avowal, that I regard them in a twofold point of view: 1st, as the residue and product of vegetable and animal life; 2d, as manifesting the tendencies of the Life of Nature to vegetation or animalization.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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These studies had a great analogy, for man is to a great degree composed both of the substances on which animals feed, and was also forced to look in the vegetable kingdom for affinities susceptible of animalization.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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