Pleasure in retaining the feces is unlikely, fear of the expulsion process is more likely. Never create a battleground over the issue, especially with a young child. A warm bath at a calm time of day, in a warm bathroom may be helpful; Shreddies, veggies, avoid cheese for a few days, and if you can handle the hyperactive side effect, Fudgeos are wickedly laxative! Never give adult laxative without a doctor's advice, to the anal retentive child.
The antonym for anal retentive is "laid-back" or "easy-going."
Anal retentive means you are so paranoid, you keep hold of your own excrement by being "anal retentive". So, another way to say "anal retentive", is paranoid. To add extra emphasis, hyper paranoid or similar.
Sort of. It's short for "anal retentive," which is an older psychiatric term. People who are anal retentive were thought to have been hard to potty train as children, and were thus overly obsessed with controlling everything around them.
Phil Hartman
Try: Perfectionistalso anal retentive
As often as the anal-retentive supervisor at your office requires them, which in their minds would be every year.
As often as the anal-retentive supervisor at your office requires them, which in their minds would be every year.
As tempting as it is to write a snarky response like "Anal-Retentive Twaddle," the truth is that "art" is not an acronym and the individual letters do not stand for any words in particular.
She has a retentive memory, able to remember even the smallest details of past events.
He has a very retentive memory.
"Anal" is short for "Anal Retentive," which is a medical term people used to use to mean someone who had trouble with being potty trained as a baby. Supposedly, those people grow up to be control-freaks who have to have every little detail of everything totally perfect. So if you call someone "anal," you're implying that they need to calm down and not try to control everything. "Anal" can also be short for anal sex.
People say that I have a retentive memory because I can recall a lot of information.