• Anality

    Origin

    From anal + -ity.

    Full definition of anality

    Noun

    anality

    (plural analities)
    1. (psychoanalysis) The state of being anal.
      • 1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Film in Society, p. 133:If the relationship between Protestantism and repressed anality is so close, then anality loosed from repression can be powerful to the point of political ....
      • 1994, Arleen B. Dallery, Transitions in Continental Philosophy, p. 93:It is important to note that not only anality, but also orality, causes pleasure ....
      • 2003, Frank Krutnik & Richard Bradley, Hollywood Comedians: the Film Reader, p. 79:no one has ever thought to praise him for the anality of his humor.
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