[ˈanɪməs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- hostility or ill feeling
(e.g: the author's animus towards her)

- motivation to do something
(e.g: the reformist animus came from within the Party)

- (in Jungian psychology) the masculine part of a woman's personality

- the rational mind


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Origin:
Old English (in sense animus): from Latin, ‘spirit, mind’