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Wiktionary

  1. adj. Relating or pertaining to the libido.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the libido; caused by libido.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. belonging to the libido

Examples

  • “The political dimension of the text is thus articulated in libidinal language; in Equiano's abolitionist intervention, his life story, the political is personal.”

    The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire

  • “Thus, both groups of youth can assume an antiestablishment posture, reject the regimented life of work and conformity, prefer immediate pleasure to the notion of future security, and thereby, assume a life style characterized by libidinal, passive-aggressive gratification.”

    Simon & Schuster: Clinical Work with Adolescents

  • “Though partly a parody of pretentious post-show "talk-backs," one senses a sincerity in Gillette's weariness with the "libidinal" aesthetic Dyer advocates.”

    Gothamist

  • “There is a central question that provides a guiding thread through François Cusset's far ranging and intellectually challenging investigation into the reception of "French Theory" in the United States: how is it that "around the beginning of the 1980s, right when the works of Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Derrida were being put to work on American campuses and in some alternative communities as the theoretical foundation for a new type of politics, those very names were being demonized in France as the epitome of an outdated 'libidinal' and leftist type of politics"?”

    Continental Philosophy

  • “German settlers were similarly split over “primitive” and libidinal dancing.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

  • “Instead, he's turned to studies in space, volume and illusion, with paintings whose libidinal charge throbs in trompe l'oeil views of fabric folds, razor slits, holes and intrusive wooden flutes.”

    The Guardian: This week's new exhibitions

  • “There's the tireless dissector of reality TV culture, video artist Gillian Wearing; king of libidinal bodily performance art Matthew Barney; and Tom Burr, an artist with a gift for drawing out the latent sex appeal of art, buildings and fashion.”

    The Guardian: This week's new exhibitions

  • “It's the force that propels well-behaved little Philip Roth from the comfy suburban confines of "Goodbye, Columbus" to the libidinal jungle of "Portnoy's Complaint.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Wisecracks as Wisdom

  • “For the entire month of February, we'll turn the spotlight on love, love, love: the sensual, the sexual, the libidinal, the romantic.”

    The Huffington Post: Patricia Yarberry Allen: Menopause, Sex And Valentine's Day: Dr. Pat's Notebook

  • “But we can choose to make February a great month, where we focus on what we can do to make our lives sensual, sexual, libidinal and romantic.”

    The Huffington Post: Patricia Yarberry Allen: Menopause, Sex And Valentine's Day: Dr. Pat's Notebook

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