Sexual activity between a human and another animal species.
Used in a Sentence
bestiality
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bestiality.
Editorial note
Also, this: > Children who grow up playing these games will likely see bestiality as normal!
Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
Sexual activity between a human and another animal species.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of bestiality gathered in one view.
Bestial nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal's.
(archaic) An animal-like instinct or behaviour.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for bestiality.
noun
Sexual activity between a human and another animal species.
See also: zooerastia, zooerasty
noun
Bestial nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal's.
See also: zooerastia, zooerasty
noun
(archaic) An animal-like instinct or behaviour.
See also: zooerastia, zooerasty
noun
(dated) Any abstract entity similar to a beast.
See also: zooerastia, zooerasty
Example sentences
Also, this: > Children who grow up playing these games will likely see bestiality as normal!
Look at the range of sexualities that are still criminalized: pedophilia, bestiality, incest.
You should be more direct in your support for incestuous sex and bestiality.
Children who grow up playing these games will likely see bestiality as normal!
Reddit can advocate that it's in favor of free speech while simultaneously banning the sharing of child pornography, bestiality, death threats, and revenge porn.
Marriage between two consenting adults is not a slippery slope to bestiality.
As an aside: I don't think you're comparing homosexual relationships to bestiality, but you're getting close.
As animals can't consent to sex, I'm pretty sure that Peta wouldn't agree with bestiality.
Hybrid humans having sex with humans, they said, was bestiality.
And Visa would not process payments for anything promoting bestiality.
The only thing I could think of was some bizarre new form of bestiality that lurks in the shadows of taboo obscurity.
Polygamy was also considered wrong, as was incest, marrying children, bestiality, and probably some other things that I'm forgetting.
Quote examples
Sorry but (Beta stability) looks like it says "bestiality." I would recommend changing that...
I do believe that creating a culture whereby one is building up "pseudo-reasons" against gay marriage, like talking about looming bestiality and pedophilia, is as despicable as those that are using their sexuality to create misery for others.
If you posted "I vote for this too" to some very sound proposal to allow changing of usernames, and then the original author changed the proposal to "Bestiality should be legal", thus suggesting to the world you support such a thing...
Back when BBS's was our source of porn, because it even "normal" porn of a single man and woman having normal sex was illegal where I grew up, the BBSs were overflowing with bestiality, child porn and every nasty kink known to man, because as an illicit source there was no reason for them to put limits on what was being uploaded.
Proper noun examples
Self harm, Vandalism, Suicide, Homicide, Genocide, Drug abuse, Changes in sexual orientation, Bestiality.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use bestiality in a sentence?
Also, this: > Children who grow up playing these games will likely see bestiality as normal!
What does bestiality mean?
Sexual activity between a human and another animal species.
What part of speech is bestiality?
bestiality is commonly used as noun.