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Libido vs Erogenous - What's the difference?

libido | erogenous |

As a noun libido

is libido (sexual urges or drives).

As an adjective erogenous is

sensitive to sexual arousal.

libido

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
    • Good grief man, control your libido !
  • (psychology) Drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
    • For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world .
    The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros .

    Synonyms

    * horniness

    Antonyms

    * (in common usage ): boredom

    See also

    * nymphomaniac, hypersexuality, masturbator

    erogenous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sensitive to sexual arousal.
  • * 2001 , , Fourth Estate, paperback edition, p. 254,
    • His neck, shoulders, upper back, and spine were erogenous zones.
  • Causing sexual arousal, erotogenic.

    • Related terms

    * erogenous zone