different between genital vs genitality

English

Etymology

From Middle English genital, from Latin genitalis (“of or belonging to generation”), from genitus, past participle of gign? (“to beget, generate”); see genus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??n?t?l/, /?d??n?t?l/

Adjective

genital (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to biological reproduction.
2. Of, or relating to the genitalia.
3. (psychoanalysis) Of, or relating to psychosexual development during puberty.

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Translations

See also

• female genital mutilation

Noun

genital (plural genitals)

1. (rare) A genital organ; the genitalia.
   • 1961, The Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis:

     ( b ) the masturbation [...] served as evidence that his genital was not injured ("fixing feet")

   • 1967, Ruth G. Newman, Marjorie M. Keith, The School-centered Life Space Interview, Six Papers:

     David told of his fears of castration and his concern that his genital was not as large as another boy's on the ward, and perhaps would never be.

   • 2013, Susan Isaacs, Childhood and After: Some Essays and Clinical Studies, Routledge (?ISBN), page 164:

     […] the anxiety and distress that his genital was dirty, disgusting and dangerous to his mother (myself); the dread of the bad internalized penis and his own faeces and urine.

Further reading

• genital in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• genital in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• atingle, elating, gelatin, langite, tag line, tagline

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?eni?ta?l]
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

genital (not comparable)

1. genital

Declension

Further reading

• “genital” in Duden online

Portuguese

Adjective

genital m or f (plural genitais, comparable)

1. genital

Noun

genital m (plural genitais)

1. (Usually plural) genital

Romanian

Etymology

From French génital, from Latin genitalis.

Adjective

genital m or n (feminine singular genital?, masculine plural genitali, feminine and neuter plural genitale)

1. genital

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin genit?lis.

Adjective

genital (plural genitales)

1. genital

Noun

genital m (plural genitales)

1. (Usually plural) genital

References

• “genital” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

genital +? -ity

Noun

genitality (uncountable)

1. In psychoanalytic theory, the part of sexuality that relates to the genitalia.
2. In Reichian psychoanalysis, the integrated function of the entire sexual apparatus; as opposed to pregenitality, neurosis. Note that in this use, sexuality oriented on the genitalia may not by itself constitute genitality, i.e. phallicism would be considered a pregenitally functioning sexuality.
3. The ability to attain erotic sensation in the genitalia.

Related terms

• genital
• genitalia
• genitally

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