Animus \An"i*mus\, n.; pl. Animi. [L., mind.]
Animating spirit; intention; temper.
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nimus furandi [L.] (Law), intention of stealing.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
animus
n : a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility [syn: animosity,
bad blood]
WordNet (r) 2.0
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "animus":
acrimony, afflatus, aim, ambition, anima, animating spirit,
animation, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, appetence, appetency,
appetite, aptitude, aspiration, bad blood, bent, bias,
bitter feeling, bitterness, cast, character, choice, command,
conation, conatus, constitution, counsel, decision, desideration,
desideratum, design, desire, determination, diathesis, discretion,
discrimination, disposition, divine afflatus, eccentricity, effect,
elan vital, enlivenment, exhilaration, fancy, feud, fire, firing,
fixed purpose, free choice, free will, function, genius, grain,
grudge, hard feelings, hostility, idea, idiosyncrasy, ill blood,
ill feeling, ill will, inclination, individualism, infection,
infusion, inspiration, intendment, intent, intention, kidney,
leaning, liking, lust, make, makeup, meaning, mental set, mettle,
mind, mind-set, mold, motive, moving spirit, nature, nisus,
objective, passion, plan, pleasure, pneuma, point, predilection,
predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, project,
propensity, proposal, prospectus, psyche, purpose, rancor,
resolution, resolve, sake, set, sexual desire, slant, soreness,
sourness, spirit, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, striving, study,
temper, temperament, tendency, turn, turn of mind, twist, type,
velleity, vendetta, venom, view, virulence, vital force, vitriol,
volition, warp, will, will power, wish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Animus
["Constraint-Based Animation: The Implementation of Temporal
Constraints in the Animus System", R. Duisberg, PhD Thesis U
Washington 1986].
(1995-11-24)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
ANIMUS. The intent; the mind with which a thing is done, as animus
cancellandi, the intention of cancelling; animus farandi, the intention of
stealing; animus maiaendi, the intention of remaining; animus morandi, the
intention or purpose of delaying.
2. Whether the act of a man, when in appearance criminal, be so or not,
depends upon the intention with which it was done. Vide Intention.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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