libidinize
verbEtymology From libido + -ize?
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Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences 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:
- Derived terms
- delibidinization, delibidinize