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Anal Retentive

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Adjective

1. anal, anal retentive

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.

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Anal Retentive

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noun
1. 
a person who exhibits anal personality traits
adjective anal-retentive
2. 
exhibiting anal personality traits
adjective
1. psychology, psychiatry
exhibiting anal personality traits
2. pejorative, informal
being excessively concerned with trivial details
She admits to being very anal-retentive until she had children.
He is the sort of anal-retentive individual who polishes the undersides of his shoes as well.

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Anal Retentive

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adjective
anal1 (sense 2) anal1 (sense 3)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Anal Retentive

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adj.
Indicating personality traits, such as extreme fastidiousness, stinginess, and obstinacy, supposed by psychoanalytic theory to originate during the anal stage in habits, attitudes, or values associated with infantile pleasure in retention of feces.

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