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The Collaborative International Dictionary
libidinal

libidinal \libidinal\ adj. Of or pertaining to the libido; caused by libido; as, libidinal gratification; libidinal impulses.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
libidinal

1922, in psychology jargon, from libido (Latin genitive libidinis) + -al (1).

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libidinal

a. Relating or pertaining to the libido.

WordNet
libidinal

adj. belonging to the libido; "libidinal impulses"; "libidinal gratification"

Usage examples of "libidinal".

It represents the erotic, libidinal, anarchistic, and subjective values worshiped by Hagbard Celine and our friends in the Legion of Dynamic Discord.

Oblomovkan childhood involves a psychological regression to a carefree, presexual existence where libidinal pleasure is derived primarily, if not exclusively, from the ingestion of food and drink.

Although Freud has been famously charged with backing away from the cultural implications of this theory, when he proposed the Oedipus complex and thereby transferred the libidinal activity from the parents to the children, we still find the etiology thesis alive and well in contemporary thinking about trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, as evidenced in the work of Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk.

It is a refusal to include in the compound individual some aspect of organic life, emotional-sexual life, reproductive life, sensuous life, libidinal life, biospheric life.

And thus the libidinal God must be resurrected, a resurrection that will confer salvation, in the form of liberation from repression, on all who participate in the Great libidinal Body as it rises from the dead night of repression and confers free orgasmic release on all who eat of that body and drink of that blood.

Modern psychologists say that the force released is Freud's libidinal energy.

Her genotype had been selected and shaped for physical attractiveness, and for as much in the way of libidinal energy and submissiveness as Mesa's gengineers could pinpoint in the genetic code.

Her genotype had been selected and shaped for physical attractiveness, and for as much in the way of libidinal energy and submissiveness as Mesas gengineers could pinpoint in the genetic code.