noun.
Enjoyment of vigorous health and physical drives.
noun.
Indifference to all but the physical appetites.
noun.
The philosophical doctrine that humans are animals in their essential identity and are persons only through their contingent properties.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The state of a mere animal; the state of being actuated by sensual appetites only, and not by intellectual or moral forces; sensuality.
noun.
The exercise of animal faculties; animal activity.
noun.
A mere animal; specifically, a human being dominated by animal qualities and passions.
noun.
In physiology, same as animalculism.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities or objectives; preoccupation with sensual, physical, or carnal pleasures.
noun.
The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality
noun.
The enjoyment of physical appetites
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun.
the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature
noun.
preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites
Word Usage
"Its position will be recognized on the vertical line between the frontal and occipital, as it is not an element of energy and success, nor of debility, but simply an element of debasing animalism, which is not destitute of force."