phallic

phal·lic (f

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a phallus.

2. Of or relating to the cult of the phallus as an embodiment of generative power: phallic worship.

3. Of or relating to the third stage of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory, from about ages three to six, during which gratification is focused on sensations associated with the genital organs. The phallic stage is preceded by the anal stage and followed by the latency period.

[Greek phallikos, from phallos, phallus; see phallus.]

phalli·cal·ly adv.

phallic [ˈfælɪk]

adj

1. of, relating to, or resembling a phallus a phallic symbol

2. (Psychoanalysis) Psychoanal

a. relating to a stage of psychosexual development during which a male child's interest is concentrated on the genital organs

b. designating personality traits, such as conceit and self-assurance, due to fixation at the phallic stage of development Compare anal [2] oral [7] genital [2]

c. (in Freudian theory) denoting a phase of early childhood in which there is a belief that both sexes possess a phallus

3. (Non-Christian Religious Writings / Other Non-Christian Religious Writings) of or relating to phallicism

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Adj.	1.	phallic - relating to a phallus especially as an embodiment of generative power; "a phallic cult"; "phallic worship"
	2.	phallic - resembling or being a phallus; "a phallic symbol"; "phallic eroticism"; "priapic figurines" priapic male - being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation; "a male infant"; "a male holly tree"

Translations

phallic [ˈfælɪk] ADJ → fálico

phallic [ˈfælɪk] adj → phallique
phallic symbol n → symbole m phallique

phallic

adj → phallisch; phallic symbol → Phallussymbol nt

phallic [ˈfælɪk] adj → fallico/a

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The one originated with the authors of the Dithyramb, the other with those of the phallic songs, which are still in use in many of our cities.

The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context

The swede-field in which she and her companion were set hacking was a stretch of a hundred odd acres, in one patch, on the highest ground of the farm, rising above stony lanchets or lynchets--the outcrop of siliceous veins in the chalk formation, composed of myriads of loose white flints in bulbous, cusped, and phallic shapes.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

There, upon huge pedestals of dark rock, sculptured with rude emblems of the Phallic worship, separated from each other by a distance of forty paces, and looking down the road which crossed some sixty miles of plain to Loo, were three colossal seated forms--two male and one female--each measuring about thirty feet from the crown of its head to the pedestal.

King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context

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