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Noun: castration anxiety
  1. (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women
    "The patient's castration anxiety manifested in recurring nightmares about losing his masculinity"

Type of: anxiety, anxiousness

Encyclopedia: Castration anxiety