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The suffix is -ty. "Animus" is the original Latin root, meaning "spirit" and the -ty is the suffix (which creates a noun denoting a condition) -- thus the new word, "animosity." It is similar to the words bellicosity (from "bellus") and verbosity (from "verbum").

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