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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pregenital en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + genital.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete, rare) Before birth; prenatal.
  2. (not-comparable) In front of the genital region.
  3. (not-comparable) Pertaining to those stages of development prior to that of genital sexuality.
    • For the affliction is always based on a fixation in some pregenital phase of development […]. 1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 231: