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antiphallic en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + phallic.

Meanings

  1. Opposing the phallic.
    • Featuring two uninhibited young women who are both named Marie--whose various escapades, which add up less to a plot than to a string of outrageous set pieces, include several antiphallic gags, and a free-for-all with fancy food rivaling Laurel and Hardy that got Chytilova in lots of trouble with the authorities--this is a disturbing yet liberating tour de force from a talented director showing what she can do with freedom. 1988 June 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Daisies”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
    • In this chapter I will examine, on the one hand, how the sexual fantasies codified in harem texts may be used to construe an antiphallic, gynarchic model of "what a woman wants," […] 1999, Emily Apter, “Scopic regimes of Power/Phallic Law”, in Continental Drift:

Forms

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more antiphallic Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most antiphallic Degree=Sup lexicographic