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Analysis

1. The separating of something into its components or parts in order to find out what it contains, or to study the structure as a whole. 2. The study of such constituent parts and their interrelationships in making up a whole. 3. A spoken or written presentation of such study.

Analytic

1. The condition or state of being analytical.

Analytical

1. Separating a whole into its components or parts; using the process of analysis 2. Concerned with or based on analysis.

Anger

1. A feeling or desire to hit out at someone or something that may result from a real or perceived injury, mistreatment, opposition, etc. wrath; indignation; rage; ire. 2. Implies emotional agitation of varying intensity aroused by great displeasure.

Anima

1. A current of air, wind, air, breath, the vital principle, life, and soul. 2. The inner self (not the external persona) of a person in touch with the unconscious instead of the persona. 3. The unconscious feminine aspect of a person (Jungian psychology.)

Animus

  1. Hostility or ill feeling. 2. Motivation to do something. 3. The animating spirit. 4. Jung’s term for the masculine part of a woman’s personality. 5. That life-giving aspect that animates a thing: life, lifeforce, soul, vitality.

Antagonism

1. Mutual resistance; opposition; hostility. 2. The condition of being an opposing principle, force or factor.

Antagonistic

1. Hostile; unfriendly; in opposition to.  If you provoke a bored person they will become Antagonistic.

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