GENITAL PHASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genital phase mean? 

• GENITAL PHASE (noun)
  The noun GENITAL PHASE has 1 sense:

1. (psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence; interest focuses on sexual activity

  Familiarity information: GENITAL PHASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENITAL PHASE (noun)

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Meaning:

(psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence; interest focuses on sexual activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

genital phase; genital stage

Hypernyms ("genital phase" is a kind of...):

phase; stage (any distinct time period in a sequence of events)

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)

Holonyms ("genital phase" is a part of...):

adolescence (the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood)