libido

Sexual urges or drives.

Noun

  1. Sexual urges or drives.
    • Good grief man, control your libido!

    Synonyms: horniness

    Antonyms: frigidity

  2. 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.

    Antonyms: destrudo mortido

    Hypernyms: drive

  3. 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.

Forms

libidos

Related

libido dominandi nymphomaniac hypersexuality masturbator

Derived

antilibido libidinize libidoless non-libidoist