Animal Spirits Definition
noun
The vitality of good health.
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Healthy, lively vigor.
Webster's New World
(medicine, now historical) The theorized ‘spirits’ or physiological principles which allowed for sensation and voluntary movement. [from 15th c.]
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Liveliness, vivacity, a happy tendency to action. [from 18th c.]
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(economics) After Keynes (citation 1936, above), the emotional and intuitive factors that drive business decisions whether to make investment gambles. [from 20th c.]
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