Meanings
plural libidinists
- rareA lecher or oversexed person.
With one day flowing into another as the short, cold days seemed to hold Paddington Cove in the grip of yearning for spring, Old Maggie thought often of the village's libidinist. Jem's lewd ways had gone unchecked for so many years […]
2011, Jeanne McElvaney, Old Maggie’s Spirit Whispers, page 107Synonyms: donjuanist, erotomaniac, freak, fuckster, hornball, horn dog, hypersexual, ramp
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA lecher or oversexed person.
Origin
- Latinlibidinor“to indulge”
- Englishlibidinist
From stem of Latin libidinor (“to indulge”) + -ist.
More words from Latin
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