animus

5 definitions found

animus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Animus \An"i*mus\, n.; pl. Animi. [L., mind.]
     Animating spirit; intention; temper.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     nimus furandi [L.] (Law), intention of stealing.
        [1913 Webster]

animus - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  animus
      n 1: a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility [syn:
           animosity, animus, bad blood]

animus - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Animus
  
     ["Constraint-Based Animation: The Implementation of Temporal
     Constraints in the Animus System", R. Duisberg, PhD Thesis U
     Washington 1986].
  
     (1995-11-24)
  

animus - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  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.
  
  

animus - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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