bestialismn.
/ˈbɛstɪəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈbɛstʃl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˈbiːstɪəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈbiːstʃl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈbɛstʃəˌlɪzəm/, /ˈbɛstiəˌlɪzəm/, /ˈbistʃəˌlɪzəm/, /ˈbistiəˌlɪzəm/ 1. The state or condition of a beast. Also: unmoderated brutality or sensuality; bestiality.Recorded earliest in twi-bestialism (cf. twi- comb. form).
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [noun]
rethenesseOE
grimcundleȝcc1175
fellhead1340
ferteec1380
fiercenessc1384
savagenessa1400
grimliness14..
fellnessc1410
bestialitya1413
fierceheadc1440
cruelness?a1475
inhumanity1477
bremeness?1529
fury1534
tigerness1535
bruteness1538
immanity1539
wolvishness?1548
ferity?c1550
brutishness1567
truculency1569
Phalarism1581
ferocity1606
savagerya1616
brutality1633
inhumanness1649
wolfishness1676
boarishness1682
brutism1687
truculence1727
ferociousness1766
bestialism1824
tigerhood1846
Calibanism1859
unhumanness1885
inhumanism1907
Hunnishness1914
the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > animal nature of man > [noun] > brutishness
bestialitya1413
brutality1550
bruteness1590
brutalism1803
bestialism1824
brute-mindedness1843
beaver-intellect1850
beaverism1850
brutalization1874
1824 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 329 One of the Electors' names is Cattermole!!! I wonder what twi-bestialism that Fellow committed in his pre-existent state to bring down such a name upon him!
1847 E. B. Elliott Horæ Apoc. (ed. 3) IV. vii. 265 The seven times of Nebuchadnezzar's insanity and state of bestialism.
1885 D. Masson Carlyle ii. 76 This antecedent physical evolution, and more especially..those nearer portions of it which..lead from protoplasmic slime, through differentiated bestialism, to a special ancestry in the ape.
1930 World Unity Mar. 393 Nationalism will lead to bestialism.
2019 Christianity & Lit. 68 712 The binaries of angelism and bestialism, abstraction and pure immanence, which would become more pronounced in his later work.
2. The action or practice of having sexual intercourse with an animal.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > bestiality and zoophilia
buggery1533
beastliness1576
bestiality1576
bestialism1865
zoophilia1906
1865 W. M. Rossetti in tr. Dante Comedy Pt. I: Hell Gen. Expos. p. xxiv The entrance of the lower Hell, wherin Bestialism and Malice are punished.
1966 Jrnl. Social Issues Apr. 82 Homosexuality, bestialism, fellatio, cunnilingus..are sexual but not procreational.
1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Dec. 12 Straight theory about normal sex, abnormal sex, bestialism, illnesses, contraceptives, conception, pregnancy, birth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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