Libido vs Lust - What's the difference?
libido | lust |
(common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
(psychology) Drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
(archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
* Spenser
* Bishop Hall
(archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
(obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
To desire very strongly.
To crave sexual contact urgently.
As nouns the difference between libido and lust
is that libido is sexual urges or drives while lust is a feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.As a verb lust is
to desire very strongly.libido
English
Noun
(en noun)- Good grief man, control your libido !
- 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
* horninessAntonyms
* (in common usage ): boredomSee also
* nymphomaniac, hypersexuality, masturbatorlust
English
(wikipedia lust)Noun
- Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust .
- The boarders hide their lust to go home.
- For little lust had she to talk of aught.
- My lust to devotion is little.
- An ideal son is his father's lasting lust .
- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* bloodlust * lustful * lustihood * lustily * lustiness * lustless * lusty * lust murderVerb
(en verb)- She was lusting after the new short dress she set her eyes on in the shop.