different between instinct vs libido

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nstinctus, past participle of ?nstingu? (“to incite, to instigate”), from in (“in, on”) + stingu? (“to prick”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.st??kt/

Noun

instinct (countable and uncountable, plural instincts)

1. A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.

   Many animals fear fire by instinct.
2. An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.

   an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct

   Debbie's instinct was to distrust John.

Derived terms

• instinctively
• instinctive

Translations

Adjective

instinct (comparative more instinct, superlative most instinct)

1. (archaic) Imbued, charged (with something).
   • 1838, Henry Brougham, Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III

     a noble performance, instinct with sound principle

   • 1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

     Her eyes, whose colour I had not at first known, so dim were they with repressed tears, so shadowed with ceaseless dejection, now, lit by a ray of the sunshine that cheered her heart, revealed irids of bright hazel – irids large and full, screened with long lashes; and pupils instinct with fire.

   • 1928, HP Lovecraft, ‘The Call of Cthulhu’:

     This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters.

Further reading

• instinct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• instinct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French instinct, from Latin ?nstinctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?st??(k)t/
• Hyphenation: in?stinct
• Rhymes: -??kt

Noun

instinct n (plural instincten)

1. instinct (innate response, impulse or behaviour)

Derived terms

• instinctief
• instinctmatig
• moederinstinct
• vaderinstinct

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nstinctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.t??/

Noun

instinct m (plural instincts)

1. instinct
2. gut feeling

Related terms

• instinctif

Further reading

• “instinct” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French instinct

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?stinkt/

Noun

instinct n (plural instincte)

1. instinct

Declension

Related terms

• instinctiv

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lib?d? (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??bi?.d??/
• Rhymes: -i?d??

Noun

libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)

1. (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.

   Synonym: (vulgar) horniness

   Antonym: boredom
2. (psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.

   Antonyms: destrudo, mortido

   Hypernym: drive

3. (astronomy, archaic or misused, an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy) Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.

Descendants

• ? Mandarin: ??? (lìb?du?)
• ? Irish: libídeo
• ? Japanese: ???? (ribid?)
• ? Korean: ??? (ribido)

Translations

See also

• nymphomaniac, hypersexuality, masturbator

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lib?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?b?do]
• Hyphenation: li?bi?do

Noun

libido n

1. libido

Declension

Further reading

• libido in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• libido in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lib?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.bi.do/

Noun

libido f (usually uncountable, plural libidos)

1. libido

Derived terms

• libidinal

Descendants

• ? Turkish: libido

Further reading

• “libido” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

libido f (invariable)

1. (psychoanalysis) libido

See also

• libidine

Anagrams

• bolidi

Latin

Alternative forms

• lub?d?

Etymology

From Italic: *lu??? (“to desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“love, care, desire”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /li?bi?.do?/, [l??bi?d?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li?bi.do/, [li?bi?d??]

Noun

lib?d? f (genitive lib?dinis); third declension

1. desire, fancy, inclination, longing, pleasure
2. caprice, passion, wantonness
3. lust, sensuality

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• lib?din?sus

Related terms

• libet
• lib?din?s?
• libita

Descendants

References

• libido in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• libido in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• libido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin lib?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?i?b?i.d?/

Noun

libido n (indeclinable)

1. (common usage) libido (sexual urges or drives)

   Synonyms: pop?d seksualny, po??danie seksualne, chu?

2. (psychoanalysis) libido (drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves)

Further reading

• libido in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• libido in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

1. (psychology) libido (sexual urges or drives)
2. (psychology) libido (drives based on sexual instincts)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin lib?d?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?bido/
• Hyphenation: li?bi?do

Noun

lìbido m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. libido

Declension

Related terms

• l?bidin?zan

Slovak

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lib?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?libido]

Noun

libido n (genitive singular libida, nominative plural libidá, genitive plural libíd, declension pattern of mesto)

1. libido

Declension

Further reading

• libido in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Latin lib?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lí?bid?/

Noun

l?bido m inan

1. libido

Inflection

Derived terms

• libidinózen

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lib?do.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?bido/, [li???i.ð?o]
• Rhymes: -iðo
• Hyphenation: li?bi?do

Usage notes

• There is a certain tendency to pronounce libido as /?li.bi.do/ due to the influence of lívido, but this pronunciation is incorrect according to the Spanish orthography and thus not recommended.

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

1. libido, sex drive

References