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libido:
1. The sexual urge or instinct; the sex-drive ; Freud's term for the sexual energy of the id.
SYNONYMS AND QUASI-SYNONYMS: carnal-desire ; concupiscence ; craving; desire ; eroticism; horniness ; itch ; lasciviousness; lecherousness; lechery ; libidinousness; lickerishness; lust ; lustfulness; passion ; prurience ; salaciousness; sexual-desire . See horny for synonyms. QUOTES:
(1) Barbara Stern (Caroline Aaron) to Clifford Stern (Woody Allen) in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ' Once the sex goes it all goes .'
(2) Barmaid Sal (Lynnie Godfrey) to her friend V.I. Warshawski (Kathleen Turner) who has Murray troubles in V.I. Warshawski (1991): 'The man is a slut . We know this. Have libido, will travel .'
(3) Frank Slade (Al Pacino) to Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell) in Scent of a Woman (1993): ' The day we stop looking, Charlie , is the day we die .'
2. In psychoanalytic theory, the psychic and emotional energy derived from primitive or instinctual biological drive . A freudian term.
ETYMOLOGY: From the New Latin libidin-, libido; desire , lust ; and from libere, to please.
See Also: wet dream-girl, sexual charge, homoeroticism, anaclitic, feel the Colt's tooth, heteroerotic, heteroerotism, homoerotic, hypersexual, oversexed, heteroeroticism, acmasia, acme, alibido, anality, Barbarella, buysexual, charge, Eros,
Quotes Containing libido:
Barmaid Sal (Lynnie Godfrey) to her friend V.I. Warshawski (Kathleen Turner) who has Murray troubles in V.I. Warshawski (1991): ''The man is a slut . We know this. Have libido , will travel.''
Barmaid Sal (Lynnie Godfrey) to her friend V.I. Warshawski (Kathleen Turner) who has Murray troubles in V.I. Warshawski (1991): ''The man is a slut . We know this. Have libido , will travel.''
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