(psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve; said to be formed in early childhood by fixation during the anal stage of development (usually as a consequence of toilet training)
the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual
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