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animality

noun

animality is spelled A-N-I-M-A-L-I-T-Y: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, animality means “The nature of an animal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of animality is animalities.

How many letters and syllables are in animality?

Letters9: A-N-I-M-A-L-I-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 154,067th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is animality?

Animality appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of animality

  • animalities plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does animality mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The nature of an animal.

  2. 2

    The animal kingdom.

  3. 3

    Any characteristic of animality.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Animality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense characteristic of animality:

LanguageWords
Frenchanimalité

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does animality come from?

From French animalité or its etymon Late Latin animālitās. By surface analysis, animal + -ity.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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