English Dictionary

animal spirits

名詞

歴史的 複数形 複数形のみ

(medicine, now historical) The theorized ‘spirits’ or physiological principles which allowed for sensation and voluntary movement. / Liveliness, vivacity, a happy tendency to action.

日本語の意味

（医療、現代では歴史的概念）感覚や随意運動を可能にするとされた、体内の生命力や生理学的な原理 / 生き生きとした活力、快活さ、行動への前向きな傾向

Early physicians believed that animal spirits flowed through the nerves to produce sensation and voluntary movement.

初期の医師たちは、感覚や随意運動を生じさせるために、生命の精気が神経を流れると信じていた。

意味（1）

(medicine, now historical) The theorized ‘spirits’ or physiological principles which allowed for sensation and voluntary movement.

, 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.

意味（2）

Liveliness, vivacity, a happy tendency to action.

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.

意味（3）

(economics) After Keynes (citation 1936, above), the emotional and intuitive factors that drive business decisions whether to make investment gambles.

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.