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animus

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an·i·mus  (n-ms)
n.
1. An attitude that informs one's actions; disposition.
2. A feeling of animosity; ill will. See Synonyms at enmity.
3. In Jungian psychology, the masculine inner personality as present in women.

[Latin; see an- in Indo-European roots.]

animus [ˈænɪməs]
n
1. intense dislike; hatred; animosity
2. motive, intention, or purpose
3. (Psychology) (in Jungian psychology) the masculine principle present in the female unconscious See also anima
[from Latin: mind, spirit]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.animusanimus - a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
ill will, enmity, hostility - the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"

animus
noun ill will, hate, hostility, hatred, resentment, bitterness, malice, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, acrimony, rancour, bad blood, malevolence, virulence, malignity He displayed a thorough animus to the Western tradition.
Translations
animus [ˈænɪməs] N
1. (= animosity) → odio m
2. (Psych) → animus m, alma f
animus [ˈænɪməs] (formal) n (= animosity) → animosité f
animus against sb/sth, animus towards sb/sth → animosité envers qch/qn
animus
n no pl
(Psych) → Animus m
animus [ˈænɪməs] nanimosità


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By us ordinary mortals of a mediocre animus that is only too anxious to pass by wicked giants for so many honest windmills, adventures are entertained like visiting angels.
Several other women also chimed in, with an animus which none of them would have been so fatuous as to show but for the rollicking evening they had passed.
Dorothea had observed the animus with which Will's part in the painful story had been recalled more than once; but she had uttered no word, being checked now, as she had not been formerly in speaking of Will, by the consciousness of a deeper relation between them which must always remain in consecrated secrecy.
 
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