libido
Sexual urges or drives.
Noun
- Sexual urges or drives.
- Good grief man, control your libido!
Synonyms: horniness
Antonyms: frigidity
- Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world.
- The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.
Hypernyms: drive
- Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
Synonyms: albedo in terms of a planet's such as that of Mars average surface spectral reflectivity
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.