animal spirits

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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(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.

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