name
Meaning 1
A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
libido
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/
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UK: /ləˈbi.doʊ/
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UK: /lɪˈ-/
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rhymes with -iːdəʊ
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CMU ARPABET: L AH0 B IY1 D OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Sexual urges or drives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: common usage
Examples
- Good grief man, control your libido!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: horniness
Antonyms: frigidity
noun
Meaning 3
Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
Examples
- For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world.
- The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: destrudo, mortido
Broader terms: drive
noun
Meaning 4
Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: archaic or misused; an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy; archaic or misused; an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
(psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sexual desire, eros, concupiscence, physical attraction
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.
Across languages
Translations
66 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: غَرِيزَة جِنْسِيَّة (ḡarīza jinsiyya) — sexual urges or drives
- Arabic: ليبيدو (libido) — sexual urges or drives
- Armenian: լիբիդո (libido) — sexual urges or drives
- Central Bikol: libog — sexual urges or drives
- Bulgarian: либидо (libido) — sexual urges or drives
- Catalan: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Chinese Mandarin: 性衝動 /性冲动 (xìngchōngdòng) — sexual urges or drives
- Czech: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Dutch: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Esperanto: volupto — sexual urges or drives
- Estonian: libiido — sexual urges or drives
- Estonian: iha — sexual urges or drives
- Estonian: sugutung — sexual urges or drives
- Finnish: halut — sexual urges or drives
- Finnish: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Finnish: himot — sexual urges or drives
- French: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Galician: libido — sexual urges or drives
- German: Libido — sexual urges or drives
- German: sexuelle Begierde — sexual urges or drives
- Hebrew: תשוקה (tshuká) — sexual urges or drives
- Hebrew: לִיבִּידוֹ (libido) — sexual urges or drives
- Hungarian: libidó — sexual urges or drives
- Indonesian: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Japanese: 性衝動 (seishōdō) — sexual urges or drives
- Latin: libīdō — sexual urges or drives
- Māori: taera — sexual urges or drives
- Persian: لیبیدو — sexual urges or drives
- Polish: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Polish: popęd seksualny — sexual urges or drives
- Polish: pożądanie seksualne — sexual urges or drives
- Polish: chuć — sexual urges or drives
- Portuguese: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Romanian: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Russian: либи́до (libído) — sexual urges or drives
- Slovak: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Slovene: libído — sexual urges or drives
- Spanish: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Swahili: ashiki — sexual urges or drives
- Swahili: nyege — sexual urges or drives
- Swahili: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Swedish: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Tagalog: libog — sexual urges or drives
- Turkish: libido — sexual urges or drives
- Turkish: şehvet — sexual urges or drives
- Turkish: cinsel dürtü — sexual urges or drives
- Turkish: cinsellik içgüdüsü — sexual urges or drives
- Armenian: լիբիդո (libido) — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Catalan: libido — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Chinese Mandarin: 性力 (xìnglì) — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Chinese Mandarin: 力比多 (lìbǐduō) — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Dutch: libido — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Finnish: libido — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Finnish: elämänvoima — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- French: libido — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- German: Libido — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Hebrew: לִיבִּידוֹ (libido) — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Indonesian: libido — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Irish: libídeo — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Japanese: リビドー (ribidō) — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Korean: 리비도 (ribido) — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Polish: libido — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Portuguese: libido — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Russian: либи́до (libído) — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Spanish: libido — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Turkish: libido — drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.