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phallicize

verb

Etymology

From phallic + -ize.

  1. borrowed from φαλλός
  2. borrowed from phallus — “membrum virile, phallus, or a figure thereof”
  3. formed as phallic — “phallus + -ic”
  4. suffixed as phallicize — “phallic + ize”

Definitions

  1. To make phallic.

    • De Marsay has been drafted into a sexual theater: he exists only to phallicize an absent woman lover.
    • The libido, formerly accumulated in the fantasied phallus, leaves this central source and gradually phallicizes the real body; that is, it spreads throughout this body, with the isolated exception of the so-called genital zone.

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