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   An·i·mus

   /ˈanəməs/

   

   noun

   • 1. hostility or ill feeling: "the author's animus toward her"
   • 2. motivation to do something: "the reformist animus came from within the Party"
   • 3. Jung's term for the masculine part of a woman's personality.
   • 4. the rational mind. historical

   Word Origin Old English (in sense animus (sense 4)): from Latin, ‘spirit, mind’.

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

   • I

     1

   • M

     3

   • U

     1

   • S

     1

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