animalism

noun4

1. •
   Animal-like behaviour or appetite; brutality.

   • The wife is what her husband makes her, and his rude animalism had made her the nervous invalid she was. — 1874
2. •
   In a positive sense: natural animal activity; physicality, natural energy.
3. •
   The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality.

   • Animalism understands the human person and the human animal to be identical. The major appeal of animalism is that it avoids the spatially coincident thinkers discussed earlier. — 2014
4. •
   Animal liberation; animal rights advocacy.

   • For this reason, if before the 1990s animalism was politically nonexistent, much changed after the publication of Animal Liberation. — 2018