NOUN
- (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
How To Use oral phase In A Sentence
- Getting stuck in the phallic phase is little progress over fixation on the oral phase.
- The temporal phases of staminate and pistillate flowers never overlap in the same capitulum, although different capitula of the same individual plant may be in different phases at any given moment.