castration anxiety
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.77 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The literal or metaphorical fear of emasculation; associated with the early psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "If we wonder now how easily men are threatened by women, and how the slightest expression of feminine power can generate castration anxieties in even a big man, then perhaps we would do well to think back on the origins of agriculture."