anal sadism
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.55 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cluster of personality traits in the anal stage of psychosexual development, involving aggressiveness, destructiveness, negativism, and outwardly directed rage.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It gratified his genital sadism as an act of sadistic coitus on the parental model; his anal sadism by 'putting his mark on her'"
- "In the alcoholic, anal erotism is heightened, again owing to partial fixation, whilst anal sadism is correspondingly increased."
- "From this earliest phase the child continues to develop, through the first phase of anal sadism (as described by Abraham) with a gradual increase in erotic admixture to the second phase of anal sadism"