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psychosexual development

psychosexual development noun: the progressive evolution of infantile sexuality through oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital phases.

Noun

psychosexual development (uncountable)

  1. The progressive evolution of infantile sexuality through oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital phases.

Questions about psychosexual development

What does psychosexual development mean?
Psychosexual development means the progressive evolution of infantile sexuality through oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital phases.
What part of speech is psychosexual development?
Psychosexual development is a noun.

Words near psychosexual development in the dictionary

  1. psychosensorial
  2. psychosensory
  3. psychoses
  4. psychosexological
  5. psychosexual
  6. psychosexual development
  7. psychosexualities
  8. psychosexuality
  9. psychosexually
  10. psychosine
  11. psychosines

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