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anal-retentive
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anal-retentive
adj.
Indicating personality traits, such as meticulousness, avarice, and obstinacy, originating in habits, attitudes, or values associated with infantile pleasure in retention of feces.


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), like I did in my review of the last mag, but nobody's perfect and youthful exuberance counts for way more than anal retentiveness.
"Not to stereotype accountants, but it's good to have that anal retentiveness in the way that we look at stocks," says Fort.
Indeed, I would like to see a Freudian interpretation of social values related to constipation that particularly explores anal retentiveness and the use of dilators, vibrators and colonic irrigation as methods of prevention and cure.
 
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