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ORAL PERSONALITY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
(psychoanalysis) a personality characterized either by generous optimism or aggressive and ambitious selfishness; formed in early childhood by fixation during the oral stage of development
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("oral personality" is a kind of...):
personality (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual)
Domain category:
analysis; depth psychology; psychoanalysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)