Libido vs Mating - What's the difference?
libido | mating |
(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.
Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.
(zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
* 1981 , Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research (page 96)
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As nouns the difference between libido and mating
is that libido is libido (sexual urges or drives) while mating is (zoology) pairing of organisms for copulation.As an adjective mating is
fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.As a verb mating is
.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, masturbatormating
English
(wikipedia mating)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}