libidinize

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English

Etymology

From libido +‎ -ize?

Verb

libidinize (third-person singular simple present libidinizes, present participle libidinizing, simple past and past participle libidinized)

  1. (transitive, psychology) To imbue with sexual urges or attraction.
    • 1953, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 40:
      In the intellectual there is an attempt to solve this conflict by libidinizing speech, thought and intellect, so that these become instinctual satisfactions within themselves.
    • 1975, Waldo Emerson Nelson, Victor C. Vaughan, Robert James McKay, Nelson textbook of pediatrics:
      In the same way that he unconsciously and automatically libidinizes his body systems, the infant also libidinizes the mother.