Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine of the soul; psychology.
- Psychic; spiritual; relating to soul: the opposite of
material or materialistic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.
- noun obsolete Psychology.
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- adjective rare Pertaining to or possessing an
animate nonphysical nature; having amental orspiritual nature.
Etymologies
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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"), closely related to anima, which is a feminine form; see anima.
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