Meaning Of The Word Penis envy

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penis envy in British English
in Freudian psychoanalytic theory, a condition in which a young girl covets the male penis which she believes she has lost
the repressed wish of a female to possess a penis
noun: a Freudian concept in which envy of the penis is postulated as the cause for some of the characteristics found in women

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