Synonyms for animus
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : an-uh-muh s |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈæn ə məs |
Définition of animus
Origin :- 1820, "temper" (usually in a hostile sense), from Latin animus "rational soul, mind, life, mental powers; courage, desire," related to anima "living being, soul, mind, disposition, passion, courage, anger, spirit, feeling," from PIE root *ane- "to blow, to breathe" (cf. Greek anemos "wind," Sanskrit aniti "breathes," Old Irish anal, Welsh anadl "breath," Old Irish animm "soul," Gothic uzanan "to exhale," Old Norse anda "to breathe," Old English eðian "to breathe," Old Church Slavonic vonja "smell, breath," Armenian anjn "soul"). It has no plural. As a term in Jungian psychology for the masculine component of a feminine personality, it dates from 1923.
- noun hostility
- It indicated that the animus of which I am speaking is almost a commonplace.
- Extract from : « Change in the Village » by (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt
- But fraud is hard to suppress when the animus of the perpetrator is wrong.
- Extract from : « The Tapestry Book » by Helen Churchill Candee
- Easter was too far away, and the animus of the school was for quiet study.
- Extract from : « Miss Ashton's New Pupil » by Mrs. S. S. Robbins
- I gather, that her animus is, in all honesty, directed at the—I quote—state of sin.
- Extract from : « One of Our Conquerors, Complete » by George Meredith
- Austen did not smile; he could well understand his father's animus in this matter.
- Extract from : « Mr. Crewe's Career, Complete » by Winston Churchill
- In the ring he struck to hurt, struck to maim, struck to destroy; but there was no animus in it.
- Extract from : « When God Laughs and Other Stories » by Jack London
- Now their animus against Gourlay prompted them to back it up.
- Extract from : « The House with the Green Shutters » by George Douglas Brown
- His "dear brother's" popularity and big salary were not the animus of that criticism—oh, no!
- Extract from : « Ginger-Snaps » by Fanny Fern
- Boniface perceived the animus of his foe, but bore himself as loftily as ever.
- Extract from : « The Eighteen Christian Centuries » by James White
- The effect upon their mental condition of this loss of animus was immediate.
- Extract from : « Angel Island » by Inez Haynes Gillmore
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