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- noun The state or essence of being an
ant .
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Examples
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The clowns redeem themselves, but only by helping fearful antdom find the courage to get real and hang tough.
Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Then, again, there is a white woodlouse, something like the common little armadillo, but blind from having lived so long underground, which walks up and down the lanes and alleys of antdom, without ever holding any communication of any sort with its hosts and neighbours.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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His descriptions of antdom are not only expert but also Homeric and profoundly empathic, resulting in the most imaginative yet scientifically authentic rendering of insect life ever written.
Critical Mass 2010
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I was an ant and they did not notice me, they had no idea I was there and I lay there in my antdom and listened to them, experiencing some of what they experienced, not all of it, by any means, for I did not have the knowledge nor the perceptions; like gods they were, and I as dust beneath their feet, although I do not know if they had feet, and I loved them and was terrified by them, both at once ....
A Heritage of Stars Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1977
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