Castrativeness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being castrative. uncountable

    "Most of these mothers also had dominating mothers and submissive fathers of their own, and their husbands had also been obedient sons of dominating mothers; in Freudian terms, the castrativeness all around was rather extreme."

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"Most of these mothers also had dominating mothers and submissive fathers of their own, and their husbands had also been obedient sons of dominating mothers; in Freudian terms, the castrativeness all around was rather extreme."

Etymology

From castrative + -ness.

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