anal phase

1. 1.

   (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned

   Synonymsanal stage

   Broaderphase

   Part ofchildhood

   psychoanalysis

Questions about anal phase

What does anal phase mean?

anal phase means "(psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned".

What is another word for anal phase?

Close synonyms include anal stage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anal phase a common word?

anal phase is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.