English
libido
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/
Noun

libido

  1. (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
    Synonyms: horniness
    Antonyms: boredom
    Good grief man, control your libido!
  2. (psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
    Antonyms: destrudo, mortido
    Hypernyms: drive
    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.
  3. (astronomy, archaic or misused, an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy) Synonym of albedo#English|albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
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