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anal stage

anal stage noun: the Freudian stage of psychosocial development in which the chief erogenous zone is the anus and the child gains pleasure from learning to control the bowel and bladder.

Noun

anal stage (plural anal stages)

  1. The Freudian stage of psychosocial development in which the chief erogenous zone is the anus and the child gains pleasure from learning to control the bowel and bladder.

Forms of anal stage

pluralanal stages

Questions about anal stage

What does anal stage mean?
Anal stage means the Freudian stage of psychosocial development in which the chief erogenous zone is the anus and the child gains pleasure from learning to control the bowel and bladder.
What part of speech is anal stage?
Anal stage is a noun.
What is the plural of anal stage?
The plural of anal stage is anal stages.

Words near anal stage in the dictionary

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