animalisation

Definitions of animalisation
  1. noun
    an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities
    synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization
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    type of:
    debasement, degradation
    a change to a lower state (a less respected state)
  2. noun
    a depiction in the form of an animal
    synonyms: animalization
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    type of:
    delineation, depiction, limning, line drawing
    a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
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