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   animus

   /ˈanɪməs/

   noun

   • 1. hostility or ill feeling: "the author's animus towards her"
   • 2. motivation to do something: "the reformist animus came from within the Party"
   • 3. (in Jungian psychology) 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

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   • N

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   • I

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   • M

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   • U

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