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libido

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Drinking too much often results in a loss of libido . ▪ Most doctors agree that a suppressed libido is often associated with emotional and psychological problems. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both cheeks and my libido are stinging.... ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context common usage English) Sexual urges or drives. 2 (context psychology English) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Libido is a 1973 Australian drama film comprising 4 segments written and directed as independent stories, but screened together as one piece, exploring a common theme of instinctive desire and contemporary sexuality. John B. Murray directs a segment called ...

Usage examples of libido.

My knees almost melted at the double entendre, but I stiffened them and reminded my libido that he was a thief who had cruelly stolen my aquamanile and left me at the mercy of the gendarmes.

I stiffened them and reminded my libido that he was a thief who had cruelly stolen my aquamanile and left me at the mercy of the gendarmes.

Every homosexual is a latent heterosexual, every authoritarian cop is the shell over an anarchistic libido.

Add to the fact that the natural swelling and lubrication around the vagina slow after you age, and loss of libido represents the female equivalent of erectile dysfunction.

In the other leg of the L, besides the armchair, were more books, a heavy concertina blind sealing off the window, two narrow doors that I supposed were those of a closet and a lavatory, and what looked like a slightly scaled-down and windowless telephone booth until I guessed it must be an orgone box of the sort Reich had invented to restore the libido when the patient occupies it.

The titillation of the gift was playing havoc with his libido and his temper, and every time he rubbed his thumb across the lace in his pocket, he grew harder.

Now she was in a region of ambivalent drives, and of nebulous and stillborn wishes, anxieties, doubts interwoven with regressive beliefs and libido wishes of a fantastic nature.

Either the analysand is phenomenally ignorant of anatomy, especially female anatomy, or he is here hallucinating a manic wish-fantasy born of libido too long suppressed.

Hoo-boy, did it always get this hot in Lowth, or had her part-time job affected her libido?

The diagnostic project has quite simply exploded into a dreamscape ruled by libido and pulsion, and we see just how subversive literature as an art form can be: it depicts a series of events, but we sense that they are merely a cover, a facade for other, darker forces.

Is my psychological anguish due solely or even primarily to repressing the libido?

Where the hell was all this libido when there was a willing, unentangled woman around?

For me the serenity was the strongest of the castration effects, followed by the decrease in libido.

Quis enim adeo obtunisi (obtusi) pectores (is) et a sensu inhumanitatis extorris est qui ignorare potest immo non senserit in venalibus rebus quaevel in mercimoniis aguntur vel diurna urbium conversatione tractantur, in tantum se licen liam defusisse, ut effraenata libido rapien - rum copia nec annorum ubertatibus mitigaretur.

I was actually getting a reputation as a man who was either devoted to duty, or was devoted to some off-scene girlfriend, or was gay, or who had a low libido, or who perhaps had been hit below the belt by one of those bullets.