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Anal stage Moderate

Origin: French suffix -age

Anal stage has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned

2

The 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.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
phase
Rhyming Words
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