libidinal

adjective

li·​bid·​i·​nal lə-ˈbi-də-nəl How to pronounce libidinal (audio)
-ˈbid-nᵊl
: of or relating to the libido
libidinal impulses
libidinally adverb

Examples of libidinal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Bella’s infantile verbal communication, awkward motor skills, and libidinal compulsion startle Victorian hypocrites. Armond White, National Review, 23 Feb. 2024 Gorgeously shot and studious about its people and places, the film takes a keen interest in the professor’s life as equal parts intellectual and libidinal and pedagogical, both frustrating and full. Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023 The show, too, doesn’t shy away from depicting its protagonists as still libidinal. Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023 By book’s end, Laura has even discovered a libidinal charge in abandoning herself to mutual aid. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023 The easy typecasting of adolescence, the endless cutthroat games, the libidinal fumbling: There are more empty calories for scriptwriters in a camp setting than there are in your average snack shack. James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023 There’s a tendency to ascribe the barbaric, almost libidinal hatred peddled by Fox to profit. Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 5 May 2023 It’s got the sort of zealotry and funk that Pop could only have gotten from fellow artists who worship the Ig, and who seek only to forward his agenda of witty, libidinal lyrics and mood-swing croons and cackles. A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023 Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky anticipated the many peccadilloes of cable news that were just over the horizon, but also a bit of social media and its impulsive, libidinal urges thinly disguised by data. WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of libidinal was in 1922

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“Libidinal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/libidinal. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

Medical Definition

libidinal

adjective
li·​bid·​i·​nal lə-ˈbid-ᵊn-əl, -ˈbid-nᵊl How to pronounce libidinal (audio)
: of or relating to the libido
libidinally adverb
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