libido

About 1.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Sexual urges or drives.

   Good grief man, control your libido!

2. noun Drives 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.

3. noun Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.

Similar words

eros quantum sexual appetite eroticism lust sexual desire passion sex drive appetence carnal desire

Often followed by

and is in theory to or from was as

Word family

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