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ORAL STAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oral stage mean? 

ORAL STAGE (noun)
  The noun ORAL STAGE has 1 sense:

1. (psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development; the mouth is the focus of the libido and satisfaction comes from suckling and chewing and bitingplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ORAL STAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development; the mouth is the focus of the libido and satisfaction comes from suckling and chewing and biting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

oral phase; oral stage

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

phase; stage (any distinct time period in a sequence of events)

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)

Holonyms ("oral stage" is a part of...):

babyhood; early childhood; infancy (the early stage of growth or development)


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