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anima

anima

1 9.7
The soul or life force of a person
  • noun
  • /ˈænɪmə/
translation icon : alma
  • The negative anima is often represented as a witch or priestess.
  • anima, or soul
  • anima is often represented

Their whole heart, mind, men's and soul anima are too small for the greatness of their love.

Examples

  • Their whole heart, mind, men's and soul anima are too small for the greatness of their love.

  • Men visualize the anima very often as a priestess or goddess.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Temperaments contribute to your anima less to your persona.

  • And the the anima, unlike the the intellect of the mind is actually spread throughout the entirety of the body.

  • Si, anima, soul.

  • The Latin word for soul is, of course, anima, and it is this traditional feminine side that makes it possible for them to feel remorse and love.

    Blog text (11)
  • Strong, bold guys get her anima moving before her rational brain can switch into place, whereas guys who engage girls intellectually produce little emotional response and provide her rational side.

    Blog text (9)
  • We can ask them to help Nona change the animus to anima, and then the despots will fall, and we'll be able to go back through the anchor and travel the Virtual Mode again. "To Jupiter!"

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Revolving in the galaxy of the self are the planets representing stages of the self, the guide representing the Jungian anima or inmost core, and "me," the lived and physically experienced ego through which we inhabit space.

    Academic text (2017)
  • In many philosophical discussions, anima is considered the vital force that animates the human spirit.

Synonyms

pneuma
vsanima
  • Literature
1 9.9

A breath or force thought to give life to living things

is used more in philosophical and psychological contexts than in medicine
spiritus
vsanima
  • Archaic
9.9

A Latin word for breath or spirit

is the concept used in philosophy and psychology rather than as a historical term
atma
vsanima
  • Specialized
9.9

The soul of a person that is separate from the body and mind in Hindu belief

is a broader, nonsectarian concept used in general philosophical and psychological contexts

Surface Forms

anima singular
animas plural

Etymology

Anima comes from Latin anima, which means 'breath' or 'soul'. That is why anima can mean the soul or 'life force' in a person, and it is the same root you see in animate and animal, words about being alive.