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bestiality
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bestiality has 2 senses
- bestiality(n = noun.attribute) Array - the stupid brutal quality of a beast; Array is a kind of inhumaneness, inhumanity
- bestiality(n = noun.act) zooerastia, zooerasty - sexual activity between a person and an animal; Array is a kind of sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice
Derived form adjective bestial1
CIDE DICTIONARY
bestiality, n. [F. bestialité.].
- The state or quality of being bestial. [1913 Webster]
- Unnatural connection with a beast. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bestiality, n. (pl. -ies)
1 bestial behaviour or an instance of this.
2 sexual intercourse between a person and an animal.
1 bestial behaviour or an instance of this.
2 sexual intercourse between a person and an animal.
Etymology
F bestialit{eacute} (as BESTIAL)
THESAURUS
bestiality
Adam, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, abominableness, anal intercourse, animalism, animality, atrociousness, autoeroticism, awfulness, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, buggery, cannibalism, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, coarseness, contemptibleness, cruelness, cruelty, cunnilingus, despicableness, detestableness, direness, disgustingness, dreadfulness, earthiness, egregiousness, fallen nature, fallen state, fellatio, fellation, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, filth, flesh, fleshliness, foulness, fulsomeness, grossness, hand job, hatefulness, heinousness, horribleness, ill breeding, impoliteness, incivility, infamousness, inhumaneness, inhumanity, irrumation, lapsed state, loathsomeness, lousiness, manipulation, masturbation, materialism, nastiness, nefariousness, noisomeness, nonspirituality, notoriousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, offensiveness, onanism, oral-genital stimulation, outrageousness, pederasty, philistinism, postlapsarian state, rankness, repulsiveness, rottenness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, scandalousness, scurviness, self-abuse, shabbiness, shamefulness, shoddiness, sodomy, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, swinishness, terribleness, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, the pits, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncleanness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, unrefinement, unspirituality, vandalism, viciousness, vileness, violence, wanton cruelty, wildness, worthlessness, wretchedness
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