Animus:
- [mass noun] Hostility or ill feeling.
‘the author’s animus towards her’- [mass noun] Motivation to do something.
‘the reformist animus came from within the Party’
More example sentences- Psychoanalysis
(in Jungian psychology) the masculine part of a woman’s personality.
Often contrasted with anima [Oxford English Dictionaries]
Noted in “Trump’s DACA lie is rooted in transparent cynicism,” Steve Benen, Maddowblog:
This isn’t complicated: if Trump wanted to help Dreamers, he would. He could restore DACA. He could also accept one of the many bipartisan offers he’s been presented with. He could take deportations off the table. He could accept the wall-for-DACA compromise he said he wanted.
But the president hasn’t done any of these things, and that’s almost certainly because he doesn’t want to.
But instead of defending his position, Trump, whose rise to power was fueled in part by anti-immigration animus, is lying about it.
