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Libido

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia.
Noun
  1. 1
    Sexual urges or drives. countable, uncountable

    "Good grief man, control your libido!"

  2. 2
    (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire wordnet
  3. 3
    Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves. countable, uncountable

    "For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world."

  4. 4
    Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.

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