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libidinize

libidinize verb: to imbue with sexual urges or attraction.

Verb

libidinize (third-person singular simple present libidinizes, present participle libidinizing, simple past and past participle libidinized)

  1. (transitive) To imbue with sexual urges or attraction.
    • In the intellectual there is an attempt to solve this conflict by libidinizing speech, thought and intellect, so that these become instinctual satisfactions within themselves.1953, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 40
    • In the same way that he unconsciously and automatically libidinizes his body systems, the infant also libidinizes the mother.1975, Waldo Emerson Nelson, Victor C. Vaughan, Robert James McKay, Nelson textbook of pediatrics

Forms of libidinize

third-person singular presentlibidinizes
present participlelibidinizing
past participlelibidinized
pastlibidinized

Origin of libidinize

From libido + -ize?

Words formed from libidinize

Questions about libidinize

What does libidinize mean?
Libidinize means to imbue with sexual urges or attraction.
What part of speech is libidinize?
Libidinize is a verb.
What is the past tense of libidinize?
The past tense of libidinize is libidinized.

Words near libidinize in the dictionary

  1. libidinal
  2. libidinally
  3. libidinism
  4. libidinist
  5. libidinists
  6. libidinize
  7. libidinized
  8. libidinizes
  9. libidinizing
  10. libidinosity
  11. libidinous

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