The quality of being animable; the state or degree to which something is capable of receiving animation or becoming alive.
Formed by adding '-ness' to 'animable,' creating an abstract noun that expresses the quality itself. Built on Latin 'anima' (soul/life).
Medieval theologians actually created hierarchies of 'animableness'—they ranked whether plants, animals, and humans were equally able to receive divine animation, which justified different moral treatments.
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