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clitoric

clitoric adjective: synonym of clitoral.

Adjective

clitoric (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of clitoral.
    • [W]e shall now consider the next phase in the child's development. It is the phallic or clitoric phase, which treats of the predestined erogenous zones which are often quite active in childhood.1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 184
    Synonyms:
    clitoral

Synonyms of clitoric

Origin of clitoric

From clitoris + -ic.

Questions about clitoric

What does clitoric mean?
Clitoric means synonym of clitoral.
What part of speech is clitoric?
Clitoric is an adjective.

Words near clitoric in the dictionary

  1. clitorectomy
  2. clitoria
  3. clitorial
  4. clitorially
  5. clitorias
  6. clitoric
  7. clitoridal
  8. clitoridean
  9. clitoridectomies
  10. clitoridectomize
  11. clitoridectomized

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