What is the difference between manimal and animal?
manimal | animal | Derived terms |
(informal) A fanciful life form that is part human and part beast; a creature recognizable as human but possessing physical or primitive behavioral characteristics that are exclusive to animals.
*2004 January 1, Christopher Miles, “Kori Newkirk; the project”, Artforum International Magazine
*2006 February 1, Paul Z. Myers, Pharyngula , ScienceBlogs
*:President panders to anti-manimal lobby! Dr Moreau flees country in rage!
*2006 February 4, Charlie Pierce, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! , National Public Radio
*:Two years ago we were going to Mars, and that sort of didn't happen... and now there's, like, manimal .
(slang, by analogy) A person compared to such a creature, especially an unkempt and uncivilized, or strong and sexually aggressive man.
*2004 January 1, Michael Burnett, “Tumyeto army”, Thrasher , High Speed Productions, Inc.
In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human being.
In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc.).
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, title= (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
(informal) A person of a particular type.
Of or relating to animals.
Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
* 2003', To explain what activated the flesh, ‘'''animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion. — Roy Porter, ''Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 47)
(slang, Ireland) Excellent.
Animal is a derived term of manimal.
In informal terms the difference between manimal and animal
is that manimal is a fanciful life form that is part human and part beast; a creature recognizable as human but possessing physical or primitive behavioral characteristics that are exclusive to animals while animal is a person of a particular type.As an adjective animal is
of or relating to animals.manimal
English
Noun
(en noun)- Standing naked against a wintry landscape, the figure became a screen for the projection of identities--beast, bigfoot, manimal , specter, even, to use a word Newkirk's work encourages one to use in all its dangerousness, spook.
- Layton smacked his head hard on a front feeble, but bounced back up to get the make. That kid's a manimal .
- "Oh, he's so on the team," Diego kept saying.
Synonyms
* (individual) macho manAnagrams
*animal
English
(wikipedia animal)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), a nominal use of an adjective from (m), neuter of (m), from ).Noun
(en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Synonyms
* (organism) beast, creature * (non-human organism) beast * (person who behaves wildly) brute, monster, savageHyponyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
From (etyl) animalis, from either or animus. Originally distinct from the noun, it became associated with attributive use of the noun and is now indistinguishable from it.Adjective
(-)- animal instincts
- animal passions