noun. with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the oral aspect in neurosis or eroticism, spanning from satisfaction in biting, sucking, smoking, or oral sex to habits like speech-making, overingesting fo [..]

the literary quality of texts written to be read or sung aloud.  Middle and Early Modern English literature was almost entirely intended for oral performance.  Even solitary readers tended to read alo [..]

The state of being oral * title=John Donne and the metaphysical gesture|page=80|author=Judah Stampfer|year=1970|passage=Indeed, this reading is particularly inappropriate among these oralities and [..]