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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

matrisexual en · ADJ

Etymology

From matri- + sexual.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) sexually attracted to one's mother
    • Although Chodorow acknowledges the contributions of biology to the infant's matrisexual experience and subsequent maternal symbiosis, she maintains that the oedipal crisis is culturally specific. 1988, Madeleine R. Grumet, Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching, page 17:

Deriveds

matrisexuality