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- noun In botany, the suppression or abortion of parts required by morphological analogy.
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- noun psychology The
disappearance ofsexual desire , supposed to be thefoundation of allneuroses .
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From Ancient Greek ἀφάνισις (aphanisis, "disappearance"). Coined by Ernest Jones in 1927.
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