True inner self

The answer

ANIMA

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANIMA answer page.

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ANIMA

Every other clue in this collection answered by ANIMA, most used first.

• Soul - used 54 times, most recently in 2015
• Jung's inner self - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Inner self - used 24 times, most recently in 2021
• Jungian inner self - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Jungian principle - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
• Inner self, to Jung - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Jung's feminine component - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
• Inner personality, to Jung - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Soul: Lat. - used 8 times, most recently in 1993
• Inner self, in Jungian psychology - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Jungian archetype - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Jungian concept - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Jungian "self" - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Life - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Life principle - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Soul, to Aristotle - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Self-evident truth - AXIOM, used 88 times
• Self-assurance - POISE, used 57 times
• Show to be true - PROVE, used 57 times
• True-blue - LOYAL, used 56 times
• "___ on a true story" - BASED, used 52 times
• Inner turmoil - ANGST, used 48 times

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