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animus
noun
    1. A feeling of strong dislike or hatred.
    2. psychol.
      A Jungian term for the masculine side of the female unconscious. Compare anima.
Etymology: Early 19c in sense 1; 1920s in sense 2: Latin, meaning ‘spirit', ‘soul'.



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