animus
noun
[ ˈanɪməs ]
• hostility or ill feeling.
• "the author's animus towards her"
• motivation to do something.
• "the reformist animus came from within the Party"
• (in Jungian psychology) the masculine part of a woman's personality.
• the rational mind.
Origin:
Old English (in sense animus (sense 4)): from Latin, ‘spirit, mind’.
