Word Study
libido
CIDE DICTIONARY
libido, n.
- Sexual desire; the sexual instinct; the sex drive. [PJC]
- Those desires and instinctual energies which are derived from the id. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
libido, n. (pl. -os) Psychol. psychic drive or energy, esp. that associated with sexual desire.
Derivative
libidinal adj. libidinally adv.
Etymology
L: see LIBIDINOUS
THESAURUS
libido
Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, anima, archetypal pattern, archetype, ardency, ardor, attachment, blind impulse, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, carnality, charity, coconscious, coldness, collective unconscious, concupiscence, conjugal love, conscience, conscious self, curiosity, death instinct, desideration, desire, devotion, drive, eagerness, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, ethical self, faithful love, fancy, fantasy, fervor, flame, flesh, fleshliness, fondness, foreconscious, free love, free-lovism, frigidity, heart, hero worship, hope, horme, id, idolatry, idolism, idolization, impotence, impulse, inborn proclivity, instinct, intellectual curiosity, lasciviousness, libidinal energy, like, liking, love, lovemaking, lust for learning, marriage, married love, mind, motive force, natural instinct, natural tendency, need, passion, persona, personality, physical love, pleasure, pleasure principle, popular regard, popularity, potency, preconscious, primitive self, psyche, psychic apparatus, racial unconscious, regard, self, sensuality, sentiment, sex, sex drive, sexiness, sexual desire, sexual instinct, sexual love, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, shine, spiritual love, subconscious, subconscious mind, subconscious urge, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, tender feeling, tender passion, thirst for knowledge, truelove, unconscious, unconscious mind, unlearned capacity, unreasoning impulse, urge, uxoriousness, vital impulse, voluptuousness, want, wanting, weakness, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, worship, yearningROGET THESAURUS
libido
Sexuality
N sex, sexuality, gender, male, masculinity, maleness, female, femininity, sexual intercourse, copulation, mating, coitus, sex, lovemaking, marital relations, sexual union, sleeping together, carnal knowledge, sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence, hots, horns, arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus, tumescence, erection, hard-on, boner, masturbation, self-gratification, autoeroticism, onanism, self- abuse, orgasm, climax, ejaculation, sexiness, attractiveness, sensuality, voluptuousness, fornication, adultery, sex symbol, sex goddess, stud, hunk, one-night stand, pornography, porn, porno, hardcore pornography, softcore pornography, pin-up, cheesecake, beefcake, Playboy, Esquire, Hustler, perversion, deviation, sexual abnormality, fetish, fetishism, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, sodomy, buggery, pederasty, sadism, masochism, sado-masochism, incest, sexy, erotic, sexual, carnal, sensual, hot, horny, randy, rutting, passionate, lusty, hot-blooded, libidinous, up, in the mood, homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual.For further exploring for "libido" in Webster Dictionary Online