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anima

noun

1. (in the psychology of C. G. Jung)
   1. the inner personality that is turned toward the unconscious of the individual ( persona
      ).

/ ˈænɪmə /

noun

1. 1. the feminine principle as present in the male unconscious
   2. the inner personality, which is in communication with the unconscious
      See also animus

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Word History and Origins

Origin of anima1

1920–25;

< Latin: breath, vital force, soul, spirit

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Word History and Origins

Origin of anima1

Latin: air, breath, spirit, feminine of

animus

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Example Sentences

I mean that she endows objects and animals with anima, the breath of life.

Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations.

They each knew they had found their anima gemella, Italian for soul mate, on their first date at Parallutti e Vino, an Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side in New York.

Williams said he was “talking about what Carl Jung talked about, the anima-animus: the anima being the female counterpart of the male self, animus.”

And anima means that is the female counterpart of the male self, and the animus is the male counterpart of the female.