Animus
noun
A feeling of strong dislike or anger.
He has an obvious animus against his political rivals.
Often appears as...
- bear an animus
- obvious animus
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Formal
noun
The intention to do something, especially to harm somebody.
In court, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant acted with animus.
Often appears as...
- prove animus
- acted with animus
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Formal
Technical
noun
The masculine part of the personality in the analytic psychology of Carl Jung.
In Jungian psychology, the animus is an aspect of the collective unconscious.
Often appears as...
- jungian animus
- animus aspect
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Formal
Technical
noun
A feeling of strong dislike or anger.
He has an obvious animus against his political rivals.
Often appears as...
- bear an animus
- obvious animus
Usage tips
Formal
noun
The intention to do something, especially to harm somebody.
In court, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant acted with animus.
Often appears as...
- prove animus
- acted with animus
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
The masculine part of the personality in the analytic psychology of Carl Jung.
In Jungian psychology, the animus is an aspect of the collective unconscious.
Often appears as...
- jungian animus
- animus aspect
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Used to express deep negative feelings toward something or someone.
His animus against the new policy was evident in his speech.
Pro Tip 2/3Stronger Than Dislike
'Animus' suggests a profound and enduring hostility, more powerful than just dislike.
Her animus towards the competitor went beyond professional rivalry.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Physical
Refers to emotional sentiment, not physical action.
Despite his animus, he never actually confronted his adversary.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Used to express deep negative feelings toward something or someone.
His animus against the new policy was evident in his speech.
Pro Tip 2/3Stronger Than Dislike
'Animus' suggests a profound and enduring hostility, more powerful than just dislike.
Her animus towards the competitor went beyond professional rivalry.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Physical
Refers to emotional sentiment, not physical action.
Despite his animus, he never actually confronted his adversary.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Used to express deep negative feelings toward something or someone.
His animus against the new policy was evident in his speech.
Pro Tip 2/3Stronger Than Dislike
'Animus' suggests a profound and enduring hostility, more powerful than just dislike.
Her animus towards the competitor went beyond professional rivalry.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Physical
Refers to emotional sentiment, not physical action.
Despite his animus, he never actually confronted his adversary.
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Our immigration...
Are they dangerous to us? And will they drain our resources? Here, the nativist answer is yes and yes, immigrants pose a threat and they sap our wealth. I would suggest that these three questions and the nativist animus behind them
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is there was no mayor to help them to bring down the Buffalo buffalo is a big animus and they're very strong and lions know if they're not very careful the buffalos can easily cut them with the
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Our immigration...
Are they dangerous to us? And will they drain our resources? Here, the nativist answer is yes and yes, immigrants pose a threat and they sap our wealth. I would suggest that these three questions and the nativist animus behind them
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Safari Live - Day 249 PIPE...
is there was no mayor to help them to bring down the Buffalo buffalo is a big animus and they're very strong and lions know if they're not very careful the buffalos can easily cut them with the
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Quote examples
Ben Domenech
American Writer
One of the things I endeavor to remind people of consistently when I am asked to speak to groups around the country is to consider the possibility that we are led by a pack of idiots. This is not out of any animus toward our leadership class, but borne out of experience.
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Randi Weingarten
American Activist
As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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Sally Mann
American Photographer
I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Glenn Greenwald
American Journalist
Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe with anti-American animus as a result of this aggression? Empires do what they want.
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Robert Nozick
American Philosopher
Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.
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Rand Paul
American Politician
Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.
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Megan Phelps-Roper
American Activist
For my grandfather, there was no distinction. There was no tension between his support for civil rights for black people and his animus toward gay people because both of those positions were scripturally derived.
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Nayef Al-Rodhan
Scientist
Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.
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Barton Gellman
American Journalist
Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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Shelby Steele
American Author
If this war makes anything clear, it is that Israel can do nothing to appease the Muslim animus against her.
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
One of the things I endeavor to remind people of consistently when I am asked to speak to groups around the country is to consider the possibility that we are led by a pack of idiots. This is not out of any animus toward our leadership class, but borne out of experience.
Quote examples
Randi Weingarten
American Activist
As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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Sally Mann
American Photographer
I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Glenn Greenwald
American Journalist
Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe with anti-American animus as a result of this aggression? Empires do what they want.
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Robert Nozick
American Philosopher
Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.
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Rand Paul
American Politician
Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.
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Megan Phelps-Roper
American Activist
For my grandfather, there was no distinction. There was no tension between his support for civil rights for black people and his animus toward gay people because both of those positions were scripturally derived.
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Nayef Al-Rodhan
Scientist
Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.
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Barton Gellman
American Journalist
Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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Shelby Steele
American Author
If this war makes anything clear, it is that Israel can do nothing to appease the Muslim animus against her.
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