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Webster 1913 Edition

Bestiality

Bes-tial′i-ty

,

Noun.

[F.

bestialité

.]

1.

The state or quality of being bestial.

2.

Unnatural connection with a beast.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bestiality

BESTIAL'ITY

,

Noun.

The quality of beasts; the state or manners of man which resemble those of brutes.

1.

Unnatural connection with a beast.

Definition 2024

bestiality

bestiality

English

Noun

bestiality ‎(plural bestialities)

(archaic) A status of lower animal.
(archaic) An animal-like instinct or behaviour.
(archaic) A mark, trait, or emblem of a beast.
"What's your bestiality?" (What's your mark?)
Sexual activity between a human and another species.
(dated) Bestial in nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal: "Man's bestiality to man"
(dated) Any abstract entity similar to a beast.

Related terms

zoophilia

Translations

status of animal

Finnish: eläimellisyys (fi)
French: bestialité (fr) f
Galician: bestialidade (gl) f
Malay: kebinatangan

Portuguese: bestialidade (pt) f
Romanian: bestialitate (ro) f
Russian: ско́тство (ru) n ‎(skótstvo), зве́рство (ru) n ‎(zvérstvo)
Spanish: bestialidad (es) f

sexual activity

Afrikaans: bestialiteit
Catalan: bestialitat f
Chinese:

Cantonese: 獸姦, 兽奸 ‎(sau³ gaan¹)

Mandarin: 獸姦 (zh), 兽奸 (zh) ‎(shòujiān)
Dutch: bestialiteit f
Finnish: eläimeen sekaantuminen
French: zoophilie (fr) f, bestialité (fr) f
Galician: bestialidade (gl) f, bestialismo (gl) f, zoofilia (gl) f
German: Bestialität (de) f
Greek: κτηνοβασία (el) f ‎(ktinovasía)

Japanese: 獣姦 ‎(じゅうかん, jūkan)
Korean: 수간 (ko) ‎(sugan) (獸姦 (ko))
Portuguese: zoofilia (pt) f, bestialidade (pt) f, bestialismo f
Romanian: bestialitate (ro) f
Russian: скотоло́жество (ru) n ‎(skotolóžestvo) / скотоло́жство (ru) n ‎(skotolóžstvo), зоофили́я (ru) f ‎(zoofilíja)
Spanish: bestialidad (es) f, bestialismo f, zoofilia (es) f
Serbo-Croatian: skotološtvo (sh) n, skotstvo f
Swedish: tidelag (sv) n