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 a mental or spiritual 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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