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animating principle

  • as insoul
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Synonyms for animating principle

noun psyche, inspiration, energy
  • conscience
  • courage
  • ego
  • feeling
  • genius
  • heart
  • intellect
  • intelligence
  • life
  • mind
  • personality
  • spirit
  • stuff
  • thought
  • vitality
  • anima
  • animation
  • animus
  • ardor
  • bosom
  • bottom
  • breast
  • cause
  • disposition
  • essence
  • fervor
  • force
  • individuality
  • marrow
  • nobility
  • noumenon
  • pith
  • principle
  • quintessence
  • reason
  • substance
  • vivacity
  • animating principle
  • breath of life
  • elan vital
  • pneuma
  • recesses of heart
  • secret self
  • spiritual being
  • vital force
  • élan vital

Antonyms for animating principle

  • concrete
  • cowardice
  • fear
  • ignorance
  • thing
  • coolness
  • discouragement
  • exteriority
  • outside
  • body
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More words related to animating principle

soul

noun. psyche, inspiration, energy

souls

noun. psyche, inspiration, energy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.