Anger vs Animus - What's the difference?
anger | animus |
A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
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, title= (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
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, passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
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To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
To become angry.
The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.
A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will.
* 2005 , Christian Science Monitor , April 22
The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality.
As nouns the difference between anger and animus
is that anger is remorse, regret while animus is the basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.anger
English
(wikipedia anger)Noun
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717
- I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Synonyms
* (strong feeling of antagonism) * See alsoDerived terms
() * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in angerVerb
(en verb)- Don't anger me.
- You anger too easily.
Synonyms
* (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)References
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* ----animus
English
(wikipedia animus)Noun
(en-noun)- The current row arose swiftly, sparked both by historical animus and jockeying over future power and place in Asia - and it surprised many observers in the depth of antipathy on both sides.