oral personality

Definitions of oral personality
  1. noun
    (psychoanalysis) a personality characterized either by generous optimism or aggressive and ambitious selfishness; formed in early childhood by fixation during the oral stage of development
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    personality
    the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual
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