castrativeness

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English

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Etymology

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From castrative +‎ -ness.

Noun

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castrativeness (uncountable)

  1. 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.
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