animate being vs being

animate being and being both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
animate being	Yes	No	No	No
being	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, being is a hypernym of animate being; that is, being is a word with a broader meaning than animate being:

animate being: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
being: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

Other hypernyms of animate being include organism.

animate being (noun)	being (noun)
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement	a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
	the state or fact of existing