penislessness

penislessness

English

Etymology

penisless +‎ -ness

Noun

penislessness (uncountable)

1. The state of being penisless; absence of a penis.
   • 2011, Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition

     When he discovered that his patients symbolized male power in their dreams, fantasies and symptoms with phallic images, he speculated that during their early years these women had learned to equate powerlessness—their own and that of their mothers—with penislessness.

Anagrams

• spinelessness