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libido
/ləˈbidoʊ/
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What does libido mean?
noun
- Sexual urges or drives.
- Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
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proper noun
- A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia.
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IPA pronunciation
/ləˈbidoʊ/
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Libido is the life energy,--but all the Freudian analyses of actual cases published make libido sex, and usually "perverse."
When spontaneity takes a useful, generous, or beneficent direction, it is called libertas; when, on the contrary, it takes a harmful, vicious, base, or evil direction, it is called libido.