castrativeness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
castrative + -ness
Noun[edit]
castrativeness (uncountable)
- The quality of being castrative.
- 2010, Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, page 289:
- Most of these mothers also had dominating mothers and submissive fathers of their own, and their husbands had also been obedient sons of dominating mothers; in Freudian terms, the castrativeness all around was rather extreme.