libidinousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 libidinous, borrowed from Latin libīdinōsus.

発音

• IPA: /lɪˈbɪ.dɪ.nəs/

形容詞

libidinous (comparative more libidinous, superlative most libidinous)

1. Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms):

     It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229:

     Stramonium seed, mixed with wine, produces, according to a seventeenth century erotologist, libidinous activity.

2. Of or relating to the libido.

同意語

• (having lustful desires): hot to trot, lascivious, lewd, licentious, lustful, wanton; See also Thesaurus:randy

派生語

関連する語

• libido
• libidinism
• libidinist
• libidinosity