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ANAL RETENTIVE
What These Words Mean
ANAL RETENTIVE adjective
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.
Solving Jumble Words by Hand
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