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animus

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
animus /ˈanɪməs/

▶noun

1 hostility or ill feeling.

2 motivation to do something.

3 Psychoanalysis (in Jungian psychology) the masculine part of a woman's personality. Compare with anima.

– origin C19: from L., ‘spirit, mind’.

'animus' also found in these Oxford entries:

anima - animadvert - animosity - equanimity - Logos - magnanimous - pusillanimous - unanimous

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