libidinize

English

Etymology

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.