libido
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
/lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/
(UK)
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/lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/ (UK) · /ləˈbi.doʊ/ (UK) · /lɪˈ-/ (UK)
Definition of libido
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)Sexual urges or drives.
“Good grief man, control your libido!”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)Sexual urges or drives.
“Good grief man, control your libido!”
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(countable, uncountable)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.”
- (countable, uncountable)Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
name
- A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.
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