| 单词 | anal retentive |
| 释义 | anal retentive (once / 3939771 pages) adj WORD FAMILY anal retentive USAGE EXAMPLESPatsy archly described someone as so anal retentive “she couldn’t sit down for fear of sucking up the furniture!” Wall Street Journal(Jul 12, 2016) When someone is categorized as being anal retentive it refers to Freud’s anal psychosexual stage. Salon(Mar 30, 2016) "I'm a weird combination of anal retentive and anal expulsive," he says while standing in front of a giant refrigerator crammed with film. Los Angeles Times(Nov 28, 2015) adj a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc. Syn|Ant anal oral a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated in the mouth; fixation at this stage is said to result in dependence, selfishness, and aggression |
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