Disgust vs Animus - What's the difference?
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To cause an intense dislike for something.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
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.
Disgust is a related term of animus.
As nouns the difference between disgust and animus
is that disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty while animus is the basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.As a verb disgust
is to cause an intense dislike for something.disgust
English
Verb
(en verb)- It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
- It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
Noun
(wikipedia disgust) (-)- With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.
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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.
