genital

Etymology

From Middle English genital, from Latin genitalis (“of or belonging to generation”), from genitus, past participle of gignō (“to beget, generate”); see genus.

adj

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

noun

  1. (rare, chiefly in the plural) A genital organ.
    ( b ) the masturbation … served as evidence that his genital was not injured ("fixing feet") 1961, The Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    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. 1967, Ruth G. Newman, Marjorie M. Keith, The School-centered Life Space Interview, Six Papers
    […] 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. 2013, Susan Isaacs, Childhood and After: Some Essays and Clinical Studies, Routledge, page 164

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