"sex drive" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sex drives [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sex drive (plural sex drives)
  1. The tendency or instinct of animals to engage in sexual activity. Categories (topical): Sex Synonyms: horniness, eros, libido, mojo, sex drive Translations (tendency to engage in sexual activity): رَغْبَة جِنْسِيَّة (raḡba jinsiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), 性衝動 (Chinese Mandarin), 性冲动 (xìng chōngdòng) (Chinese Mandarin), sukupuolivietti (Finnish), libido [feminine] (French), sexuelle Begierde [feminine] (German), Sexualtrieb [masculine] (German), Geschlechtstrieb [masculine] (German), kynhvöt [feminine] (Icelandic), kynlöngun [feminine] (Icelandic), 性衝動 (seishōdō) (alt: せいしょうどう) (Japanese), libīdō [feminine] (Latin), popęd płciowy [masculine] (Polish), полово́е влече́ние (polovóje vlečénije) [neuter] (Russian), libido [feminine] (Spanish), sexualdrift [common-gender] (Swedish), könsdrift [common-gender] (Swedish), sexdrift [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
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      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
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      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
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      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
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      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
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      "alt": "せいしょうどう",
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      "roman": "seishōdō",
      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
      "word": "性衝動"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "libīdō"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "popęd płciowy"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "polovóje vlečénije",
      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "полово́е влече́ние"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "libido"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sexualdrift"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "tendency to engage in sexual activity",
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      "word": "könsdrift"
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      "word": "sexdrift"
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