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ANIMALIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities
Synonyms:
animalisation; animalization; brutalisation; brutalization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("animalization" is a kind of...):
debasement; degradation (changing to a lower state (a less respected state))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A depiction in the form of an animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("animalization" is a kind of...):
delineation; depiction; limning; line drawing (a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects)