animalism
- n the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature
- n preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites
- Yet "frank animalism" was lacking.
- Sam Peckinpah's harrowing portrait of heroism turned to animalism as a shy mathematician (Dustin Hoffman) fights off thugs besieging his house.
- Poet Heyward's province is South CarolinaNegro life along the waterfront of old Charleston, with the atavistic rhythms, religion and animalism firmly rendered, the dialect .