Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drives.
- noun Sexual desire.
- noun Manifestation of the sexual drive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sexual desire; the sexual instinct; the sex drive.
- noun (Psychoanalysis) Those desires and instinctual energies which are derived from the id.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun common usage Sexual
urges ordrives . - noun psychology Drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Libido libido libido~ (at least that's what I hear Kemeko sing in the ED lol)
Anime Nano! 2008
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There are other factors…what we call libido, which is the drive behind every neurosis; psychoanalysis cannot influence that because it has an organic background.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Related to the Latin word libido, desire, and the German liebe, beloved, the term “belief” in English originally meant trust, commitment, engagement, what you love and prize.
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Related to the Latin word libido, desire, and the German liebe, beloved, the term "belief" in English originally meant trust, commitment, engagement, what you love and prize.
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The opposite of an amped libido is a libido unplugged.
ProWomanProLife » When pregnancy comes as a big surprise 2009
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Just last month, a full 14 months since my last period, I had a miserable 3-4 weeks of bloating, breast tenderness, crankiness and a 5 pound weight gain, along with a pleasant little blip in libido, followed by a whopping migraine the likes of which I had not had for months, followed by a week long episode of vaginal bleeding.
Menopause Defined aka TBTAM 2008
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I do still have the inclination to have sex (libido is a mental state).
In Defense of the Hysterectomy aka TBTAM 2007
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If you libido is impacted, perhaps you also had an oophorectomy - removal of the varies - if that is the case, you can consider hormone replacement.
In Defense of the Hysterectomy aka TBTAM 2007
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A stronger determinant of libido is overall well-being and the level of emotional interest (or lack thereof). posted by sydney on
Medpundit 2006
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A stronger determinant of libido is overall well-being and the level of emotional interest (or lack thereof). posted by sydney on
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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