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penis envy

  1. in Freudian psychoanalytic theory, a condition in which a young girl covets the male penis which she believes she has lost
  2. envy of power, status, or privilege, as symbolized by the penis of the male

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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