ORAL PHASE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • (psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant’’s development
   • the mouth is the focus of the libido and satisfaction comes from suckling and chewing and biting
   Synonym(s)
   • oral stage (what does oral stage mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) oral phase is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • phase (what does phase mean?)
   • stage (what does stage mean?)