libido
nounUK /lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.
1
Sexual urges or drives.
- Good grief man, control your libido!
2
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences 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.
3
Astronomy, Natural sciences Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
Archaic or misused; an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy; archaic or misused; an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy
- Derived terms
- antilibido, libidinize, libidoless, non-libidoist
- Related terms
- libido dominandi, nymphomaniac, hypersexuality, masturbator