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antiphallic

antiphallic adjective: opposing the phallic.

Adjective

antiphallic (comparative more antiphallic, superlative most antiphallic)

  1. Opposing the phallic.
    • Featuring two uninhibited young women who are both named Marie--whose various escapades, which add up less to a plot than to a string of outrageous set pieces, include several antiphallic gags, and a free-for-all with fancy food rivaling Laurel and Hardy that got Chytilova in lots of trouble with...1988 June 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Daisies”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016
    • In this chapter I will examine, on the one hand, how the sexual fantasies codified in harem texts may be used to construe an antiphallic, gynarchic model of "what a woman wants," […]1999, Emily Apter, “Scopic regimes of Power/Phallic Law”, in Continental Drift

Forms of antiphallic

comparativemore antiphallic
superlativemost antiphallic

Origin of antiphallic

From anti- + phallic.

Questions about antiphallic

What does antiphallic mean?
Antiphallic means opposing the phallic.
What part of speech is antiphallic?
Antiphallic is an adjective.

Words near antiphallic in the dictionary

  1. antipetroleum
  2. antiphage
  3. antiphagocytic
  4. antiphagocytically
  5. antiphagocytosis
  6. antiphallic
  7. antipharisaic
  8. antipharmacophore
  9. antipharmic
  10. antiphase
  11. antiphases

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