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libidinous
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li·bid·i·nous  (l-bdn-s)
adj.
Having or exhibiting lustful desires; lascivious.
[Middle English, from Old French libidineux, from Latin libdinsus, from libd, libdin-, lust, desire; see libido.]
li·bidi·nous·ly adv.
li·bidi·nous·ness n.
libidinous [lɪˈbɪdɪnəs]
adj
1. characterized by excessive sexual desire
2. of or relating to the libido
libidinously  adv
libidinousness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.libidinous - driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"
lascivious, lewd, lustful
sexy - marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes"
libidinous
adjective lustful, sensual, wanton, carnal, loose, randy (informal, chiefly Brit.), wicked, salacious, prurient, impure, debauched, lascivious, incontinent, lecherous, concupiscent, unchaste, ruttish He let his libidinous imagination run away with him.
Translations
libidinous [lɪˈbɪdɪnəs] ADJ → libidinoso
libidinous [lɪˈbɪdɪnəs] (literary) adj → libidineux/euse
libidinous
adj → lüstern; person, behaviour also → triebhaft; (Psych) urge, effect → libidinös
libidinous [lɪˈbɪdɪnəs] adj (frm) → libidinoso/a
libidinous [lɪˈbɪdɪnəs] adj (frm) → libidinoso/a


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However, Their Eyes does not reject charges of African American women's libidinousness at the expense of sexual expression, as literary critics have argued of other texts from this period.
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Third, her nutty version of feminism was a doctrine that condemned the entire male sex for its obscenely flailing, woman-pursuing libidinousness.
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