"bestiality" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbɛstʃəlˌlɪtɪ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈbistiˌælɪti/ [General-American], /ˌbist͡ʃiˈælɪti/ [General-American], /ˌbɛst͡ʃiˈælɪti/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bestiality.wav [Southern-England], En-US-bestiality.wav [US] Forms: bestialities [plural]
Rhymes: -ælɪti Etymology: From bestial + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|bestial|ity}} bestial + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} bestiality (countable and uncountable, plural bestialities)
  1. Sexual activity between a human and another animal species. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sex Translations (sexual activity with animals): bestialiteit (Afrikaans), بَهِيمِيّة (bahīmiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), bestialitat [feminine] (Catalan), 獸姦 (Chinese Cantonese), 兽奸 (sau³ gaan¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 獸姦 (Chinese Mandarin), 兽奸 (shòujiān) (Chinese Mandarin), 人獸交 (Chinese Mandarin), 人兽交 (rénshòujiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), bestialiteit [feminine] (Dutch), eläimeen sekaantuminen (Finnish), sodomia (Finnish), zoophilie [feminine] (French), bestialité [feminine] (French), bestialidade [feminine] (Galician), bestialismo [feminine] (Galician), zoofilia [feminine] (Galician), Sodomie [feminine] (German), Zoophilie [feminine] (German), κτηνοβασία (ktinovasía) [feminine] (Greek), מִשְׁכַּב בְּהֵמָה (mishkáv behemá) [masculine] (Hebrew), पशुगमन (paśugman) (Hindi), तिर्यग्योनिगमन (tiryagyonigman) [rare] (Hindi), zoofilia [feminine] (Italian), 獣姦 (jūkan) (alt: じゅうかん) (Japanese), 수간 (sugan) (alt: 獸姦) (Korean), bestialitas [feminine] (Latin), zoofilia [feminine] (Portuguese), bestialidade [feminine] (Portuguese), bestialismo [feminine] (Portuguese), bestialitate [feminine] (Romanian), скотоло́жество (skotolóžestvo) [neuter] (Russian), скотоло́жство (skotolóžstvo) [neuter] (Russian), зоофили́я (zoofilíja) [feminine] (Russian), skotološtvo [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), skotstvo [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), bestialidad [feminine] (Spanish), bestialismo [feminine] (Spanish), zoofilia [feminine] (Spanish), tidelag [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-bestiality-en-noun-3hYKL6vS Disambiguation of Sex: 67 4 7 6 4 13 Disambiguation of 'sexual activity with animals': 77 6 5 5 5 2
  2. Bestial nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal's. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Animals Translations (bestial nature): eläimellisyys (Finnish), Bestialität [feminine] (German), bestialitás (Hungarian), bestialność [archaic, feminine] (Polish), bestialstwo [neuter] (Polish), bestializm [dated, masculine] (Polish), bestialitet [common-gender] (Swedish), råhet [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-bestiality-en-noun-9Cg4K2KB Disambiguation of Animals: 9 16 15 21 24 15 Disambiguation of 'bestial nature': 4 74 8 5 3 6
  3. (dated) Any abstract entity similar to a beast. Tags: countable, dated, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Animals
    Sense id: en-bestiality-en-noun-gJPCuSNO Disambiguation of Animals: 9 16 15 21 24 15 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 5 4 30 12 36 12
  4. (archaic) A status of lower animal. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Animals Translations (status of animal): eläimellisyys (Finnish), bestialité [feminine] (French), bestialidade [feminine] (Galician), bestialitás (Hungarian), állatiasság (Hungarian), kebinatangan (Malay), bestialidade [feminine] (Portuguese), bestialitate [feminine] (Romanian), ско́тство (skótstvo) [neuter] (Russian), зве́рство (zvérstvo) [neuter] (Russian), bestialidad [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-bestiality-en-noun-4BLsmo0m Disambiguation of Animals: 9 16 15 21 24 15 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 5 4 30 12 36 12 Disambiguation of 'status of animal': 9 14 8 60 3 6
  5. (archaic) An animal-like instinct or behaviour. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Animals
    Sense id: en-bestiality-en-noun-bTljUwlW Disambiguation of Animals: 9 16 15 21 24 15 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 2 35 6 46 10 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 5 4 30 12 36 12
  6. (archaic) A mark, trait, or emblem of a beast. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Animals
    Sense id: en-bestiality-en-noun-lMs2e7Cj Disambiguation of Animals: 9 16 15 21 24 15 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 5 4 30 12 36 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: beastliness
Categories (other): Bestiality Disambiguation of Bestiality: 0 0 0 0 0 0

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          "ref": "2019 October 31, Garrick Beckett, “Beckett: How BioWare Approaches Religion & Sexuality”, in The Lutheran Column, archived from the original on 2020-09-17, Blog",
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      "word": "tidelag"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "bestial nature",
      "word": "eläimellisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "bestial nature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bestialität"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bestial nature",
      "word": "bestialitás"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "bestial nature",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bestialność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "bestial nature",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bestialstwo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "bestial nature",
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bestializm"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "bestial nature",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bestialitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "bestial nature",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "råhet"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bestiality"
}

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