What is another word for animal nature?

Pronunciation: [ˈanɪmə͡l nˈe͡ɪt͡ʃə] (IPA)

Animal nature refers to an organism's inherent and innate behavior patterns or traits that resemble those of animals. Synonyms for animal nature include primitive, instinctual, carnal, wild, feral, and natural impulses. The term can also be described as biological, evolutionary, genetic, or primal. These terms emphasize the biological and genetic background of an organism's behavior. In contrast, others can focus on the inherent or instinctive drive of an animal, including aggression, territorialism, and the desire for food and shelter. Regardless of the terminology used, animal nature emphasizes the natural and often uncontrolled instincts of living organisms, including humans. Therefore, understanding these impulses is crucial for an organism's compatibility with its environment and survival.

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What are the hypernyms for Animal nature?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Animal nature?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for animal nature (as nouns)

Famous quotes with Animal nature

  • This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.
    Gustave Moreau
  • I have tried to show these capabilites as continuous with our animal nature, connected with our basic structure of motives.
    Mary Midgley
  • It is fashionable to say: You must not eat meat because you are killing the animals, and this is wrong. But in deeper terms, physically and biologically the animals are born from the body of the earth, which is composed of the corpses of men and women as much as it is of other matter. The animals consume you, then, as often as you consume them, and they are as much a part of your humanity as you are a part of their so called animal nature.
    Jane Roberts
  • “They did not like to retain God in their knowledge” (Rom. i. 28), and though they could not extinguish “the Light that lighteth every man,” and which “shone in the darkness;” yet because the darkness could not comprehend the Light, they refused to bear witness of it, and worshipped, instead, the shaping mist, which the Light had drawn upward from the ground (i.e., from the mere animal nature and instinct), and which that Light alone had made visible (i.e., by super-inducing on the animal instinct the principle of self-consciousness)
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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