libido
UK/lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/
libido noun: sexual urges or drives.
Noun
libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)
- Sexual urges or drives.
- Good grief man, control your libido!
- 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.
- 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
Proper noun capitalized: Libido
Libido
libido meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
libido in Tamil
- ஆண்மை, விறைப்பு, காமவெறி, புலன் உணர்வு நிறைவடைதல், இன்ப இயல்பூக்கம், பாலுணர்ச்சியை உந்துதல்
libido in Marathi
- लिबिडो
libido in Urdu
- جنسی طلب
libido in Bengali
- libido
- যৌন প্রবৃত্তি joun prôbritti
More languagesFewer languages
- libido in Telugu
- లిబిడో
- libido in Malayalam
- കാമവാസന, കാമചോദന, ലെെംഗികതൃഷ്ണ, ഭോഗതൃഷ്ണ
- libido in Kannada
- ಲೈಂಗಿಕ ಬಯಕೆ, ಕಾಮಾಸಕ್ತಿ, ಕಾಮುಕತೆ
- libido in Punjabi
- ਲਿਬਿਡੋ, ਲਿਬੀਡੋ
- libido in Gujarati
- લિબિડો
- libido in Odia
- ଲିବିଡୋ
- libido in Nepali
- लिबिडो
- libido in Tagalog
- libog
- libido in Arabic
- غَرِيزَة جِنْسِيَّة ḡarīza jinsiyya
- libido in Indonesian
- libido
- libido in Persian
- لیبیدو
Examples of libido in a sentence
- She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high.
- We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:libido dominandi.
Synonyms of libido
- horniness
- albedo in terms of a planet's
- such as that of Mars
- average surface spectral reflectivity
Antonyms
Forms of libido
| plural | libidos |
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Origin of libido
Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.
Words formed from libido
Words that rhyme with libido
Questions about libido
- What does libido mean?
- Libido means sexual urges or drives.
- What is libido in Tamil?
- Libido in Tamil is ஆண்மை, விறைப்பு, காமவெறி. See Libido meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is libido?
- Libido can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce libido?
- Libido is pronounced /lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of libido?
- The plural of libido is libidos.
Words near libido in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: libido (page history and authors); Libido (page history and authors); libido (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); libido (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); libido (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); যৌন প্রবৃত্তি (Bengali) (page history and authors); libido (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); libido (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); libido (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); libido (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); libido (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); libido (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); libido (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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