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ANAL PERSONALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anal personality mean?
• ANAL PERSONALITY (noun)
The noun ANAL PERSONALITY has 1 sense:
1. (psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve; said to be formed in early childhood by fixation during the anal stage of development (usually as a consequence of toilet training)
Familiarity information: ANAL PERSONALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve; said to be formed in early childhood by fixation during the anal stage of development (usually as a consequence of toilet training)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
anal personality; anal retentive personality
Hypernyms ("anal personality" is a kind of...):
personality (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual)
Domain category:
analysis; depth psychology; psychoanalysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)
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