ANIMUS meaning: Hostility or ill feeling; motivation

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word animus:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

animus: Merriam-Webster.com
animus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
animus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
animus: Collins English Dictionary
animus: Vocabulary.com
Animus, animus: Wordnik
animus: Wiktionary
animus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
animus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
animus: Infoplease Dictionary
animus: Dictionary.com
animus: Online Etymology Dictionary
ANIMUS (graphic novel), Animus (journal), Animus (rapper), Animus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Animus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
animus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
animus: Rhymezone
Animus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
animus: Free Dictionary
animus: Mnemonic Dictionary
animus: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
animus: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

animus: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (4 matching dictionaries)

animus: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
animus: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Animus: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
animus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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animus: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

animus: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.
▸ noun:  A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will.
▸ noun:  (law) intention, motivation (of a legal person)
▸ noun:  (Jungian psychology) The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality.

Opposite:

amity, friendship

Types:

hatred, hostility, animosity, resentment, dislike, antipathy, aversion, ill will, spite, more...

Phrases:

animus furandi, animus testandi, animus revertendi, Anima and animus, Anima Animus, more...

Adjectives:

personal, racial, political, real, special, particular, strong, negative, discriminatory, religious, positive

Colors:

black, red, dark purple, maroon, charcoal, burgundy, forest green, midnight blue, slate gray, crimson

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