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castrativeness en · NOUN

Etymology

From castrative + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being castrative.
    • 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. 2010, Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, page 289: