LIBIDO

libido

(noun) (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)

(common usage) Sexual urges or drives.

Synonym: horniness (vulgar)

Antonym: boredom

(psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.

Antonyms: destrudo, mortido

Hypernym: drive

(astronomy, archaic or misused, an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy) synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.

Source: Wiktionary



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