libidinize

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verb

To imbue with libido.

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Meanings

verblibidinize (third-person singular simple present libidinizes, present participle libidinizing, simple past and past participle libidinized)

present singular third person libidinizes · participle present libidinizing · participle past libidinized · past libidinized

  1. transitivehuman sciencesTo imbue with libido.

    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
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    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

Origin

From libido + -ize?

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APA

libidinize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/libidinize

MLA

“libidinize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/libidinize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “libidinize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/libidinize.

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