LIBIDO Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

libido

noun

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as in heat

technical a person's desire to have sex They have healthy libidos.

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Recent Examples of libido Vaginal dryness, discomfort, and lower libido are common as the ovaries produce less estrogen and progesterone. —

Sarah Garone, Health, 22 May 2026 What is your expectation of a ‘normal’ libido? —

Literary Hub, 20 May 2026 Viral memes and TikTok trends play up women’s purportedly excessive spike in libido during ovulation and dramatic irrationality during menstruation and the luteal phase (the 14 days or so between ovulation and menstruation). —

Andréa Becker, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026 Related Stories Quinn, created in 2019 when Spiegel was a college student recovering from an eating disorder and experiencing a loss of libido, launched as an app in 2021, with romance novels read in sensual, digestible clips. —

Emily Longeretta, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for libido

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There's about to be a lot of focus on soccer for the next month, what with the World Cup getting underway, but MLB is scoring itself some heat by bringing some serious heat.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
And the scale of the challenge — hundreds of thousands of international visitors unfamiliar with North American summer heat — is genuinely unprecedented.

— John Samuels, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026