libido

Noun

Meaning

(psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

eros ardor animalism desire passion sexuality hunger urge lust appetite yen thirst longing craving eroticism
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Antonyms

Thanatos death instinct suicidal ideation mortido death drive drive toward death
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Hypernyms

eros concupiscence sexual desire physical attraction

Phrases with the word

libido fixation low libido

Examples

It is evident that the relation to God with which the Bible is concerned does not have its source in the purple depths of the subconscious, and cannot be identical with what the deep-sea psychical research of our day describes in the narrower or broader sense as libido fulfilment. Karl Barth

A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido. Kurt Cobain

In the subconscious you fuck ugly people, never beautiful, because the libido always desires something repulsive. Salvador Dalí

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido. Helen Fisher

This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them. Carl Jung

Poverty can curdle the libido and corrode civilized thoughts. One's sense of humour vanishes, to be replaced by a curry-spoiling sarcasm as one's Mr Hyde emerges from the swamp of the subconscious. Tom Baker

Close letter words and terms

libidinous libidinously libidinousness libido dominandi libido fixation libidoless