ORAL PERSONALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oral personality mean? 

• ORAL PERSONALITY (noun)
  The noun ORAL PERSONALITY has 1 sense:

1. (psychoanalysis) a personality characterized either by generous optimism or aggressive and ambitious selfishness; formed in early childhood by fixation during the oral stage of development

  Familiarity information: ORAL PERSONALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORAL PERSONALITY (noun)

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Meaning:

(psychoanalysis) a personality characterized either by generous optimism or aggressive and ambitious selfishness; formed in early childhood by fixation during the oral stage of development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("oral personality" is a kind of...):

personality (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual)

Domain category:

analysis; depth psychology; psychoanalysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)