Psychoanalysis (in Freudian theory) relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development in which defecation is the major source of sensuous pleasure and the anus forms the centre of self-awareness.
informal anal-retentive:he’s anal about things like that
Derivatives
anally
adverb
Origin:
mid 18th century: from modern Latin analis, from Latin anus(see anus)
