different between disdain vs animus

English

Etymology

From Middle English disdeynen, from Old French desdeignier (modern French dédaigner).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?s-d?n', IPA^(key): /d?s?de?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

disdain (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
   • 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, "Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):

     Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way. Somewhere in the Moscow outskirts one could only guess at the grand disdain Cristiano Ronaldo will have felt at being supplanted as the tournament’s top scorer in that manner.
2. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
3. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.

Synonyms

• abomination
• condescension
• contempt
• despisal
• scorn
• See also Thesaurus:contempt

Antonyms

• adoration
• admiration
• honor
• respect
• reverence

Derived terms

• disdainable
• disdainful

Translations

Verb

disdain (third-person singular simple present disdains, present participle disdaining, simple past and past participle disdained)

1. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.

   • When the Philistine […] saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth.

   • 1880, Edward Henry Palmer (translator), The Qur'an, 1880, "Women", verse 170

     The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is but the apostle of God and His Word, […] The Messiah doth surely not disdain to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who are nigh to Him; and whosoever disdains His service and is too proud, He will gather them altogether to Himself. But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay their hire and will give increase to them of His grace. But as for those who disdain and are too proud, He will punish them with a grievous woe, and they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.
   • 1526, William Tyndale (translator), Bible, Matthew XXI:

     When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe, the marveylles that he dyd [...], they desdayned, and sayde unto hym: hearest thou what these saye?

Synonyms

• abominate
• contemn
• See also Thesaurus:despise

Antonyms

• adore
• admire
• honor
• respect
• revere

Translations

Anagrams

• naidids

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin animus (“the mind, in a great variety of meanings: the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, will, intention, courage, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, etc., the breath, life, soul”), from Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?enh?mos, from *h?enh?- (“to breathe”). Closely related to Latin anima, which is a feminine form. Doublet of anima.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.n?.m?s/
• Rhymes: -æn?m?s
• Homophone: animous

Noun

animus (usually uncountable, plural animuses)

1. The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.
2. A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will.
   • 2005, Christian Science Monitor, April 22

     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.

3. (Jungian psychology) The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality.

Synonyms

• bad blood

Related terms

• anima
• animose
• animosity
• equanimity
• unanimous

Translations

Further reading

• animus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• animus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• A minus, Anusim, amusin', munias, sunami

Esperanto

Verb

animus

1. conditional of animi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?enh?mos, a nominal derivative of *h?enh?- (“breathe”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (ánemos, “wind, breeze”), Old Armenian ???? (ho?m, “wind”), Old Frisian omma (“breath”), English onde (“breath”) (dialectal), Norwegian ånde (“breath”), and possibly Sanskrit ???? (ánila, “air, wind”); compare also Tocharian B ?ñme (“self; soul”) and Old Armenian ???? (anjn, “person”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ni.mus/, [?än?m?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.ni.mus/, [???nimus]

Noun

animus m (genitive anim?); second declension

1. That life-giving aspect which animates: life force, soul.

2. The intellectual dimension of a human being (the seat of the rational and other thoughts he/she experiences): mind, intellect.

   Synonym: m?ns
3. The affective dimension of a human being (the seat of the emotions and feelings he/she experiences): heart, spirit, sensibility.

   Synonym: anima

4. The essence of that which is situated within one's affective dimension, or certain particular aspects of one's affective makeup: emotion, feeling; courage, will.

5. The inherent character of a human being: character, temperament; disposition, inclination. (by extension of the affective dimension)

   Synonyms: m?s, dispositi?, incl?n?ti?, temperamentum

6. The instant mental state of a human being: mood, temper.
7. heart, soul (as a term of endearment)
8. (plural) bravado, elation, high spirits.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

• anima
• anim?

Derived terms

Descendants

• Old French: ame
  • Middle French: ame
    • French: âme
• Spanish: alma
• ? Catalan: ànim
• ? English: animus
• ? Italian: animo
  • ? Dutch: animo
• ? Portuguese: animus, ânimo
• ? Spanish: ánimo

References

• animus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• animus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• animus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• animus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animus (“the soul, thoughts, intellect, ideas, will, thoughts, courage, etc.; the breath, life”), closely related to anima (“air, breath, spirit, life force”). From Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?enh?mos, from *h?enh?- (“to breathe”). Doublet of ânimo.

Noun

animus m (uncountable)

1. (Jungian psychology) animus (the masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality)

Related terms

• anima