Usually means: Confidence driving economic decision-making behavior.
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  1. animal spirits: Merriam-Webster
  2. animal spirits: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. animal spirits: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. animal spirits: Collins English Dictionary
  5. animal spirits: Wordnik
  6. animal spirits: Wiktionary
  7. animal spirits: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. animal spirits: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Animal spirits, animal spirits: Dictionary.com
  10. Animal Spirits (Keynes), Animal Spirits (book), Animal spirits (Keynes), Animal spirits, The Animal Spirits: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Animal Spirits: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. animal spirits: FreeDictionary.org
  13. animal spirits: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. animal spirits: Merriam-Webster

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  1. animal spirits: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (animal spirits)

noun:  (medicine, now historical) The theorized ‘spirits’ or physiological principles which allowed for sensation and voluntary movement.
noun:  Liveliness, vivacity, a happy tendency to action.
noun:  (economics) After Keynes (citation 1936, above), the emotional and intuitive factors that drive business decisions whether to make investment gambles.

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