What's the difference between animus and feminine?

Animus


Definition:

  • (n.) Animating spirit; intention; temper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He comes across as remarkably lacking in political bloodlust or even tribal animus.
  • (2) The satirical animus is what vibrates the molecules.
  • (3) The level of animus was the Miliband brothers on speed.
  • (4) But having said that, I have no animus in my heart, I have no hatred, no bitterness in my heart, for people that have a different view.” Rubio tried to make a similar argument by drawing a comparison to how divorce is viewed by the Catholic faith.
  • (5) Whatever the reasons, he has frequently exported personal animus into the foreign arena, too.
  • (6) The report continues: “The racial animus and stereotypes expressed by these supervisors suggest that they are unlikely to hold an officer accountable for discriminatory conduct or take any steps to discourage the development or perpetuation of racial stereotypes among officers.
  • (7) There appears to be a clear animus to the Christian faith and to Judeo-Christian values.
  • (8) Sue The thing is, it was only these two [Mary and Paul] who had that raw sexual animus.
  • (9) In this atmosphere of racial animus and class contempt, political dislocation and electoral opportunism, the space for the arguments we need to have about immigration, democracy and austerity simply did not exist.
  • (10) The sums are so paltry that the animus seems deliberate.
  • (11) But the county is not a destination stop for connoisseurs of political animus.
  • (12) An animus entered the relationship between the former friends and the bitter narrative was maintained until the last race of the season, when Hamilton secured his second world championship in Abu Dhabi.
  • (13) How anyone can read any of these passages and object to claims that Harris' worldview is grounded in deep anti-Muslim animus is staggering.
  • (14) Chinese people's long-standing animus toward their erstwhile colonial overlord is, of course, very real.
  • (15) But Bloom holds a special animus for Fox News and Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox .
  • (16) He continues: “Inside our borders, the nation of e pluribus unum [out of many, one] threatens to be fractured across ethnic lines by racial animus and divisive multiculturalism.
  • (17) That’s not a statement of animus or prejudice against anyone,” he said.
  • (18) It is an act of respect for the will of the American people, a respect that is every American leader’s first responsibility.” The animus between Clinton and Trump was clear throughout the debate – once again, they did not shake hands – and in some of the more heated exchanges , with Clinton accusing Trump of being a “a puppet” of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
  • (19) It seems to me that his animus derives much more from a profound antipathy towards the subject matter of this research than from a concern about the scientific methods used to investigate it.
  • (20) Principle and power struggles aside, there is also personal animus.

Feminine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
  • (a.) Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
  • (n.) A woman.
  • (n.) Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
  • (2) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (3) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
  • (4) The connections between childhood gender nonconformity (assessed by the Freund Feminine Gender Identity Scale, or FGI) and adult genitoerotic role (assessed by a sex history) were examined.
  • (5) These results raise new possibilities about the time course of cellular events underlying the estrogen induction of feminine sexual behavior.
  • (6) A ngelina Jolie sends young women all sorts of messages: that you can both be a mom and successful businesswoman, that it’s important to take a stand on issues you care about, and that making a healthy choice “in no way diminishes [your] femininity”.
  • (7) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
  • (8) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
  • (9) It's like The Feminine Mystique, that, in tweet form.
  • (10) Self-acceptance scores were significantly lower for women scientists than for professional and student groups, and femininity scores were significantly lower for scientists than for all other groups of women.
  • (11) Men who adopted a submissive feminine role and women with high masculine aggressive scores were more permissive as regards drinking.
  • (12) The TVs were significantly higher than the OPs on role identity, indicating a more feminine identification.
  • (13) In the present study the capacity for liver regeneration following PH in the RH model was studied in rats of both sexes, in castrated males and in males receiving GH infusion, both treatments leading to a feminine pattern of GH secretion.
  • (14) The study provides important information regarding the image of nurses crossculturally and the close link between nursing and femininity.
  • (15) Personality differences among three self-ascribed render-role types (predominantly masculine, predominantly feminine, or no predominant orientation) were investigated within a group of 128 male and female homosexuals.
  • (16) The sex of the subject remained a significant predictor of both pain thresholds and tolerances after allowing for the influence of masculinity-femininity, social desirability, and their associated interactions.
  • (17) We want feminine power pumping up the muscles of the political skeleton of our countries like never before.
  • (18) We interpreted findings in terms of a tendency to self-focus that might prime feminine people to experience depression, or alternately, as a lack of self-focusing that may insulate masculine individuals from the experience of depression.
  • (19) Eighty-four undergraduate female students completed Baucom's Masculinity and Femininity Scales, the Bem Sex Role Inventory, and the Adjective Check List.
  • (20) Every piece of business research that has ever been done shows that when a company puts a women on their board the company does better yet women make up 17% of the boards of FTSE 100 companies and that is a parlous state.” The broadcaster said she was inspired by more feminine values that had particularly influenced one Icelandic company, run by two women , which survived Iceland’s economic collapse a few years ago.