libido

Noun
US[luh-bee-doh]/ləˈbidoʊ/3 syllables

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)

  1. (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desireType of sexual desire, eros
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

li·bi′do (lĭ-bē′dō), noun

1. Sexual desire; the sexual instinct; the sex drive.

2. Psychoanalysis Those desires and instinctual energies which are derived from the id.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors

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