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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
anima is a noun meaning "(Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious". It carries one recorded sense.
(Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious
Jung · psychology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anima come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.