animal nature

1. 1.

   the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect

   Synonymsanimality

   Broadernature

Questions about animal nature

What does animal nature mean?

animal nature means "the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect".

What is another word for animal nature?

Close synonyms include animality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is animal nature a common word?

animal nature is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.