The state, realm, or domain of brutes; the condition of being brutish or animal-like.
From brute + -dom (suffix meaning domain or condition, as in kingdom, Christendom). A rare literary formation meaning the sphere or state of brutish existence.
Medieval and Renaissance writers used this term to describe the contrast between human civilization and animal 'brutedom'—it's a philosophical division that modern biology has complicated.
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