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anima

noun
/ˈænɪmə/UK/ˈænəmə/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anima (“a current of air, wind, air, breath, the vital principle, life, soul”), sometimes equivalent to animus (“mind”), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”); see animus. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”), Old English anda (“anger, envy, zeal”). More at onde.

  1. derived from *h₂enh₁-✻ — “to breathe, blow”
  2. borrowed from anima — “a current of air, wind, air, breath, the vital principle, life, soul”

Definitions

  1. The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the…

    The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.

  2. The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the…

    The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.

    • In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.
    • Dorothy is bodiless and sexless in Tintern Abbey because she is Wordsworth's Jungian anima, an internal aspect of self momentarily projected.

  3. The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.

    • The projection-making factor is the anima, or rather the unconscious as represented by the anima.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for anima. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA