Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The supposed wish of a girl or woman to have a penis, postulated by Sigmund Freud as a cause of feelings of inferiority and psychic conflict.
Wiktionary
- n. psychoanalysis The alleged unconscious desire of a woman to possess a penis.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis; said to explain femininity
Etymologies
- Translating German Penisneid (in Freud). (Wiktionary)
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