anal-retentive
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anal-retentive
▶adjective Psychoanalysis excessively orderly and fussy (supposedly owing to conflict over toilet-training in infancy).
– derivatives
anal retention noun,
anal retentiveness noun.
anal retention noun,
anal retentiveness noun.
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