rare. [f. as prec. + -ITY. Cf. F. végétalité.] = VEGETABILITY 2.
1826. John Stewart, in The Republican, XIII. 182. Animal life, or substance, contains the four classes within itself; animality exists in the substance of the nerves; vegetality in the circulation of the blood; organism in the membral parts of the body; and concrete power in the coherence of the fleshy substance.
1853. C. B. Mansfield, Paraguay, etc. (1856), 373. Meat is not so frightfully cheap as lower down the river, but the people are fully as carnivorous, notwithstanding the rich vegetality of the soil.
1860. Lewes, Physiol. Common Life, II. 360, note. We may thus say vegetal, and vegetality, as well as animal, and animality. Ibid. (1879), Study Psychol., 54. In its evolution it passes from Vegetality to Animality, and through Animality to Humanity.
