Register for the Daily Good Word E-Mail! - You can get our daily Good Word sent directly to you via e-mail in either HTML or Text format. Meaning: Bitter hostility, deep-seated hatred toward someone or something. (Not only do we harbor no animosity toward Barbara Kelly for suggesting today's Good Word, we offer her our heartfelt gratitude.) (The sea anemone took its name from the flower.) Our ancient ancestors often associated breath with the soul, since breath takes on a misty, ghostly shape in cold weather. The root animus was derived from Proto-Indo-European ane- "to blow, to breathe", also found in Greek anemos "wind", the source of the name of the anemone flower. At the bottom of both these words is Latin animus "soul, spirit", source of English animal. crossing their arms (though that could be a self-comforting technique, according to ex-FBI agent Joe Navarro) their pupils constrict. Both words originated in Latin, as animositas "courage", the noun from the adjective animosus "bold". Experts say that people who secretly dislike you or aren’t interested may show the following red flags: pointing their feet away from you. Word History: Today's Good Word is the noun based on a by-now rare adjective, animous, which originally meant "high-spirited, courageous", but drifted into "hot-tempered" by the 18th century. "I hope Seamus Allgood doesn't think my letting the air out of his tires is an indication of any animosity I harbor toward him it was just a joke." Although this word began its life as a mass noun with no plural form or meaning, today it is often used in the plural: "Animosities ran high for a while after Izzy Badenoff defeated Dwight Mann in recent local elections." In Play: Animosity is often harbored rather than born or carried. Violent hatred leading to active opposition active enmity energetic dislike.
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It is a near synonym of the noun animus "motivating spirit, disposition", especially a hostile spirit, as an animus behind a policy (nonhostile) or an animus against a policy (hostile). Find 30 ways to say ANIMOSITY, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at, the world's most trusted free thesaurus. While it manifests in individual attitudes and behaviours, it is not produced by them.
The result is that it is now a lexical orphan, a word without a family of derivationally related words. Notes: Today's Good Word is no longer semantically related to the adjective it was historically derived from, animous (see Word History). Meaning: Bitter hostility, deep-seated hatred toward someone or something.