anality

English

Etymology

From anal +‎ -ity.

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Noun

anality (countable and uncountable, plural analities)

1. (psychoanalysis) The state of being anal.
   • 1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Film in Society, page 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, page 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, page 79:

     no one has ever thought to praise him for the anality of his humor.

Translations

the state of being anal

• French: analité (fr) f
• Portuguese: analidade f
• Turkish: analite

Anagrams

• Alniyat, Italyan