Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or condition of being a mammal.

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  • noun The state or quality of being mammalian, of being a mammal.

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Examples

  • Its capacity is not to sexualise in the now-ubiquitous mold of the bad girl, which, as you rightly note, has witnessed its charge collapse, but to circuit this through the revolting/the substandard - the ugly and cheesy - as a means of accruing sexuality through tactility, viscerality, carnality, mammality.

    Bedtime Reading Dodie Bellamy 2008

  • Its capacity is not to sexualise in the now-ubiquitous mold of the bad girl, which, as you rightly note, has witnessed its charge collapse, but to circuit this through the revolting/the substandard - the ugly and cheesy - as a means of accruing sexuality through tactility, viscerality, carnality, mammality.

    David's comment Dodie Bellamy 2008

  • Its capacity is not to sexualise in the now-ubiquitous mold of the bad girl, which, as you rightly note, has witnessed its charge collapse, but to circuit this through the revolting/the substandard - the ugly and cheesy - as a means of accruing sexuality through tactility, viscerality, carnality, mammality.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

  • It is not so, at least on standard evolutionary views, for mammality -- the difference there can be plausibly taken to be vague.

    The Prosblogion Alexander Pruss 2009

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