Anal-retentive Definition
ānəl-rĭ-tĕntĭv
adjective
Webster's New World
Indicating personality traits, such as extreme fastidiousness, stinginess, and obstinacy, supposed by psychoanalytic theory to originate during the anal stage in habits, attitudes, or values associated with infantile pleasure in retention of feces.
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Antonyms:
noun
A person regarded as being excessively or obsessively orderly, stingy, stubborn, etc.
Webster's New World
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