animal spirits

English

Noun

animal spirits pl (plural only)

(medicine, now historical) The theorized ‘spirits’ or physiological principles which allowed for sensation and voluntary movement. [from 15th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:
  , vol.I, New York 2001, p.253:
  This is likewise evident in such as walk in the night in their sleep, and do strange feats: these vapours move the phantasy, the phantasy the appetite, which moving the animal spirits causeth the body to walk up and down as if they were awake.
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, VI:
  His Brains will be found situated at the Head of the Os Pubis: His Animal Spirits acting more vigorously in that Part, than in the Upper Region.
- 1759, Lawrence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Folio Society 2005, p. 19:
  you have all, I dare say, heard of the animal spirits, as how they are transfused from father to son &c. &c.—and a great deal to that purpose:– Well, you may take my word, that nine parts in ten of a man's sense of his nonsense, his successes and miscarriages in this world depend upon their motions and activity [...].
Liveliness, vivacity, a happy tendency to action. [from 18th c.]
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Plain Label 1975, p. 63:
  She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the officers, to whom her uncle's good dinners, and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance.
- 1936, John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, page 161:
  Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as a result of animal spirits — of a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.
(economics) After Keynes (citation 1936, above), the emotional and intuitive factors that drive business decisions whether to make investment gambles. [from 20th c.]
- 1975, Hyman P. Minsky, John Maynard Keynes, page 11:
  This flaw exists because the financial system necessary for capitalist vitality and vigor — which translates entrepreneurial animal spirits into effective demand for investment — contains the potential for runaway expansion, powered by an investment boom.
- 2005, Roger S. Frantz, Two minds: intuition and analysis in the history of economic thought, page 91:
  The existence of animal spirits does not imply that "irrational psychology" is the controlling factor in business and economics.
- 2006, Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance, page 233:
  One of John Maynard Keynes's most famous terms, "animal spirits," is another name for much the same concept as irrational exuberance

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spirit animals

单词	animal spirits
释义	animal spirits English Noun animal spirits pl (plural only) (medicine, now historical) The theorized ‘spirits’ or physiological principles which allowed for sensation and voluntary movement. [from 15th c.] 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970: , vol.I, New York 2001, p.253: This is likewise evident in such as walk in the night in their sleep, and do strange feats: these vapours move the phantasy, the phantasy the appetite, which moving the animal spirits causeth the body to walk up and down as if they were awake. 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, VI: His Brains will be found situated at the Head of the Os Pubis: His Animal Spirits acting more vigorously in that Part, than in the Upper Region. 1759, Lawrence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Folio Society 2005, p. 19: you have all, I dare say, heard of the animal spirits, as how they are transfused from father to son &c. &c.—and a great deal to that purpose:– Well, you may take my word, that nine parts in ten of a man's sense of his nonsense, his successes and miscarriages in this world depend upon their motions and activity [...]. Liveliness, vivacity, a happy tendency to action. [from 18th c.] 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Plain Label 1975, p. 63: She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the officers, to whom her uncle's good dinners, and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance. 1936, John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, page 161: Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as a result of animal spirits — of a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities. (economics) After Keynes (citation 1936, above), the emotional and intuitive factors that drive business decisions whether to make investment gambles. [from 20th c.] 1975, Hyman P. Minsky, John Maynard Keynes, page 11: This flaw exists because the financial system necessary for capitalist vitality and vigor — which translates entrepreneurial animal spirits into effective demand for investment — contains the potential for runaway expansion, powered by an investment boom. 2005, Roger S. Frantz, Two minds: intuition and analysis in the history of economic thought, page 91: The existence of animal spirits does not imply that "irrational psychology" is the controlling factor in business and economics. 2006, Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance, page 233: One of John Maynard Keynes's most famous terms, "animal spirits," is another name for much the same concept as irrational exuberance Anagrams spirit animals
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