genitalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛnətəl/, /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtəl/

形容詞

genital (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to biological reproduction.
2. Of or relating to the genitalia.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:

     In countless Hollywood movies we see the story of two soldiers or sailors on leave; for them the pursuit of women is simply a way of relieving a genital pressure.

3. (psychoanalysis) Of or relating to psychosexual development during puberty.

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関連する語

参考

• female genital mutilation

名詞

genital (plural genitals or genitalia)

1. (rare, chiefly in the plural) A genital organ.
   • 1961, The Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     ( b ) the masturbation [...] served as evidence that his genital was not injured ("fixing feet")

   • 1967, Ruth G. Newman, Marjorie M. Keith, The School-centered Life Space Interview, Six Papers:

     David told of his fears of castration and his concern that his genital was not as large as another boy's on the ward, and perhaps would never be.

   • 2013, Susan Isaacs, Childhood and After: Some Essays and Clinical Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 164:

     […] the anxiety and distress that his genital was dirty, disgusting and dangerous to his mother (myself); the dread of the bad internalized penis and his own faeces and urine.

参考

• genitalia

Further reading

• “genital”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “genital”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

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