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A feeling of bitterness, resentment, or ill-will

An attitude that informs one's actions

A motivation to do something

A strategy worked out in advance to achieve a goal

The human soul, mind, or spirit

An indispensable factor or influence that gives something its strength and vitality

The action or fact of intending

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Noun

A feeling of bitterness, resentment, or ill-will

dissatisfaction

chip on your shoulder

strong aversion

intense dislike

hateful feeling

acrimoniousness

extreme dislike

mutual hostility

incompatibility

uncharitableness

hardness of heart

cantankerousness

ill-disposedness

personality conflict

mean-spiritedness

mischievousness

being on the warpath

evil intentions

righteous anger

contentiousness

argumentativeness

misunderstanding

disputatiousness

quarrelsomeness

wounded feelings

having no use for

contemptuousness

disillusionment

difference of opinion

disagreeableness

divided loyalties

destructiveness

willingness to fight

bee in your bonnet

unwillingness to forgive

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“He displayed a thorough animus to the Western tradition.”

Noun

An attitude that informs one's actions

“It is true that a nationalistic animus did not rally the Russian people into a cohesive national body.”

Noun

A motivation to do something

motivating force

animating force

“The ideology of the organizing cadre or party is adopted, and its rhetoric comes to be used to express the anger which is the animus of the revolution.”

Noun

A strategy worked out in advance to achieve a goal

course of action

organization^US

organisation^UK

systematization^US

systematisation^UK

method of working

proposed action

series of measures

sleight of hand

set of procedures

series of steps

systematic process

standard operating procedure

leap in the dark

standard procedure

instrumentation

organizing system

vision statement

mode of conduct

mode of behaviour

what one is into

mission statement

bait and switch

course of therapy

set of principles

instrumentality

entrepreneurship

frame of reference

orderly process

set of guidelines

set of channels

business enterprise

logical process

guiding principle

way of achieving

means of achieving

way of ensuring

means of ensuring

likely cause of

usual procedure

formularization

method of functioning

method of operation

manner of working

method of operating

mode of operation

piece of business

piece of advice

way of doing things

military science

treacherousness

superintendency

superintendence

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Noun

The human soul, mind, or spirit

essential nature

animating principle

spiritual being

recesses of heart

sum and substance

substantialness

physical existence

name of the game

characteristics

seat of affections

organization^US

innermost being

organisation^UK

seat of the affections

seat of one's feelings

individualization

piece of matter

heart of hearts

innermost feelings

basic characteristics

fundamental nature

inherent characteristics

inherent attributes

inherent qualities

fundamental quality

basic characteristic

intrinsic nature

basic attributes

essential attributes

essential qualities

basic qualities

inherent features

essential features

essential characteristics

chief constituent

nature of beast

be-all and end-all

meat and potatoes

seat of one's emotions

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Noun

An indispensable factor or influence that gives something its strength and vitality

animating spirit

essential component

essential constituent

animating force

sum and substance

personification

exemplification

fundamental nature

fundamental quality

intrinsic nature

basic characteristic

chief constituent

be-all and end-all

meat and potatoes

heart of the matter

name of the game

fundamental point

important point

essential nature

fundamental principle

principal element

chief ingredient

most important point

main ingredient

principal constituent

the long and the short of it

important detail

guiding principle

first principle

centre of attention^UK

center of attention^US

the name of the game

essential details

important matter

crux of the matter

general picture

nature of the beast

basic characteristics

inherent characteristics

characteristics

inherent attributes

inherent qualities

basic attributes

essential attributes

essential qualities

basic qualities

inherent features

essential features

essential characteristics

nature of beast

spiritual being

recesses of heart

animating principle

basic principles

main ingredients

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Noun

The action or fact of intending

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