libido

plural libidos

1. countableuncountablecommon usageSexual urges or drives.

   Good grief man, control your libido!

   Synonyms: horniness · Antonyms: frigidity

2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesDrives 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.

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   The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.

   For example, although not originally written with teenagers specifically in mind, the founding father of psychodynamic theory Sigmund Freud's assertion that the libido was one of the most powerful and natural of human needs has been viewed by some as contributing to an endorsement and legitimization of teenagers' wish to explore and test society's mores and limits.

   2019, Kairen Cullen, The Psychology of Parenting Teenagers, page 15

   Antonyms: destrudo, mortido

3. countableuncountablearchaic or misused; an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy; archaic or misused; an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomyastronomySynonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.

   Synonyms: albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity

1. A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia.