Middle English animosite from Old French from Late Latin animōsitās courage from Latin animōsus bold from animus soul, spirit anə- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
The former, while accepting utility as the criterion of " material goodness," had adhered to Shaftesbury's view that dispositions, not results of action, were the proper object of moral approval; at the same time, while giving to benevolence the first place in his account of personal merit, he had shrunk from the paradox of treating it as the sole virtue, and had added a rather undefined and unexplained train of qualities, - veracity, fortitude, activity, industry, sagacity, - immediately approved in various degrees by the " moral sense " or the " sense of dignity."
There is no mercy or compassion in this creature.
