animality

[In Ger. animal ität; Fr. animal ité; Ital. animal ità.] Conformity to the animal type of structure. "It is evident that such characters must be derived from the animal functions of sensation and motion, for these not only constitute and create an animal, but also by their greater or le capacity may be said in some measure to establish the degree of its animality." -Griffith's Cuvier , vol. 1, p. 59. -ation .