Castrativeness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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