genital stage

1. 1.

   (psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence; interest focuses on sexual activity

   Synonymsgenital phase

   Broaderphase

   Part ofadolescence

   psychoanalysis

Questions about genital stage

What does genital stage mean?

genital stage means "(psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence; interest focuses on sexual activity".

What is another word for genital stage?

Close synonyms include genital phase. 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 genital stage a common word?

genital stage 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.