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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Word of the Day

27 May 2025

DIRECTIONALITY

(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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