Word Meanings - ANIMALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANIMALISM)

• Crassitude
• Density
• thickness
• corpulence
• obesity
• burliness
• brawniness
• animalism
• pinguitude
• lumpishness
• besottedness
• Luxury
• Effeminacy
• epicurism
• voluptuousness
• wantonness
• selfindulgence
• softness
• delicacy
• dainty
• profuseness

Related words: (words related to ANIMALISM)

• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• PROFUSENESS
  Extravagance; profusion. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• SOFTNESS
  The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to Ant: hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.
• LUXURY
  1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator. 2. Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to
• EFFEMINACY
  Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men. Milton.
• OBESITY
  The state or quality of being obese; incumbrance of flesh.
• BURLINESS
  Quality of being burly.
• ANIMALISM
  The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
• BRAWNINESS
  The quality or state of being brawny.
• EPICURISM
  1. The doctrines of Epicurus. 2. Epicurean habits of living; luxury.
• PINGUITUDE
  Fatness; a growing fat; obesity.
• DELICACY
  1. The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton. 2. Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution;
• DAINTY
  deyntee, OF. deintié delicacy, orig., dignity, honor, fr. L. 1. Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. I ne told no deyntee of her love. Chaucer. 2. That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. That precious nectar
• DENSITY
  The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard. Note: For gases the standard substance is hydrogen, at a temperature of 0º Centigrade and
• CORPULENCE; CORPULENCY
  1. Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity. 2. Thickness; density; compactness. The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it. Ray.
• CRASSITUDE
  Crossness; coarseness; thickness; density. Bacon.
• INDELICACY
  The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind.