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RELATED WORDS : anal intercourse anal personality anal phase anal retentive anal retentive personality anal sex anal sphincter anal stage

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective anal has 2 senses

• anal(a = adj.pert) Array - of or related to the anus; "anal thermometer"
Derived form noun anus₁

• anal(a = adj.all) 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.; Array
Antonym: oral

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THESAURUS

anal

abdominal, accordant, appendical, bourgeois, cardiac, cecal, colic, colonic, compulsive, concordant, conformist, conventional, coronary, corresponding, dinky, duodenal, enteric, formalistic, gastric, harmonious, ileac, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, intestinal, jejunal, kosher, mesogastric, neat, orthodox, pedantic, plastic, precisianistic, pyloric, rectal, shipshape, sleek, slick, smart, snug, splanchnic, spruce, square, straight, stuffy, tidy, tight, traditionalist, trig, trim, uptight, visceral, well-cared-for, well-groomed

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Fastidiousness

N fastidiousness, nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise, epicurism, omnia suspendens naso, epicure, gourmet, prudery, fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned, squeasy, queasy, hard to please, difficult to please, querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous, censorious, hypercritical, overcritical, noli me tangere.

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