Definitions

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  • noun psychoanalysis The state of being anal.

Etymologies

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From anal +‎ -ity.

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Examples

  • And it is a strange and curious mixture of a hymn to anality, the deeply held belief that the quiet, orderly life is the one that brings happiness, and a torchsong to the demonic, that wild, disruptive and compulsive force of life that destroys and creates over and over again.

    How To Be Good « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Love of language seems to be commonly confused with anality about it.

    Guest Post: What’s the Logic of Language? « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • Again, that was you getting carried away with your humourless anality.

    Comedy Councillors: Rochdale Lib Dems Slap Schtick 2008

  • I've also noticed a higher level of anality in Wikipedia editing, quite aside from my own experience with the threat of deletion.

    Fighting Wikinomics Phil Whitehouse 2008

  • Bond's triumph over Leiter in Diamonds — he tells him where to look inside a corpse for hidden stones — is perhaps an instance of British "guts" rather than British anality.

    Bottoms Up 2006

  • Bond's triumph over Leiter in Diamonds — he tells him where to look inside a corpse for hidden stones — is perhaps an instance of British "guts" rather than British anality.

    Bottoms Up 2006

  • If it is true that, for Gillray at least, "figures on both sides of the channel share the lowest common denominator of regression to orality and anality" (200), then the discourse around Wolcot could have provided the idiom adopted for these revolutionary representations.

    'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006

  • Bond's triumph over Leiter in Diamonds — he tells him where to look inside a corpse for hidden stones — is perhaps an instance of British "guts" rather than British anality.

    Bottoms Up 2006

  • Whether eating is excessive or the opposite, the figures on both sides of the channel share the lowest common denominator of regression to orality and anality.

    'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006

  • The lady who waited on her asked when her trip was, the DIL said six weeks, the lady said it should take no more than four weeks, the DIL her anality kicking in said I want to pay the extra $75 to expedite and get it here in two weeks, and I want to pay the extra $15 to have it overnighted.

    U.S. Passport problems | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

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