What's the difference between lecherous and libidinous?

Lecherous


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; lustful; also, lust-provoking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
  • (2) In Howard v. Lecher a majority of the ''Appellate Division of the Supreme Court denied a cause of action against an obstetrician alleged to be negligent in not properly advising a couple about the dangers they were running, as potential carriers, in having a child afflicted with Tay-Sachs disease.''
  • (3) Her lustful schoolgirl may be shockingly frank, but – like lecherous George – she's never demonised.
  • (4) It comes days after a homophobic diatribe which described the head of a United Nations commission on human rights in North Korea as a "disgusting old lecher" .
  • (5) Obscenity is lecherous and sullen in regard to women and virulent towards men: it may then be interpreted as a mean of struggle against the anxiety of death.
  • (6) Even if Clinton had made the remarks about Hillary's " bisexuality ", this still sounds like a lecher's spin on "my wife doesn't understand me".
  • (7) Puns too, especially lecherous ones, aren’t necessarily a skill women should seek to appropriate.
  • (8) Super-rich evil Arab sheikh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kathleen Turner and Spiros Focas in The Jewel of the Nile Year Photograph: Alamy Too rich to know the value of anything, lecherous and obsessed with the American woman.
  • (9) The New York Times lecherously approved of her: "a quick, flashing smile, a pleasingly husky voice and a sense of humor add to the physical attributes not hidden by her Gypsy costumes".

Libidinous


Definition:

  • (a.) Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She walks through the rain to better feel her passion for the disarmingly libidinous walrus of love.
  • (2) These universal and extraordinary phenomena are conceptualized as representing the activity of the creative imagination in solving problems related to coping with intense narcissistic and libidinal pressures.
  • (3) A child whose mother herself knows no autonomy cannot develop its own fantasies through autoerotic activity and thus cannot build up a libidinal object in its inner world.
  • (4) P-APDs and borderline subjects (BPDs) produced similar mean numbers of borderline object relations; however, the BPDs were more anxious, produced more unsublimated aggressive and libidinal drive material, and evidenced greater potential for attachment.
  • (5) The main referring symptom was a pattern of intense libidinal looking at and aggressive looking away from others, which functioned as a preoedipal splitting to keep apart opposite "all good," life-enhancing and "all bad," deathlike self and object representations.
  • (6) His theory of transference grew from a need to explain how female patients libidinally distorted the reality of their male analysts.
  • (7) However his interpretation that these feelings are always based on libidinous wishes and jealousy seems to the author too farfetched and not fully proved in all cases.
  • (8) Primary narcissism has not evolved well or, said differently, is invested more with aggressive than with libidinal cathexis and is in an unfortunate association or balance with primary masochism.
  • (9) It's quite aggro," says Thorpe), and continues to track the band's obsessions with masculinity ( Nature Boy is inspired by the macho pantomime of WWF wrestlers), British culture and swaggering libidinousness.
  • (10) primary product) responses as a direct expression of the primary thought process as well as its libidinous or aggressive components; these components are further analysed in relation to the possible acceptance or rejection factor on the part of the environment.
  • (11) Constitutional factors, parents' personalities and parenting styles, and libidinal and aggressive zonal fixations all played a role in determining Bert's problems.
  • (12) The incidental pleasures in Fading Gigolo start with its sweet and slightly risible premise: John Turturro – a florist named Fioravante – has the sexual magic touch for the lonely, libidinous matrons of the One Percent.
  • (13) In this way he can break loose from his clinging dependency on an 'omnipotent object', his dyadic partner, and, through internalizing the therapist both in his female and his male aspects, create a libidinal object in his inner world.
  • (14) The continuing parochialization of the infantile neurosis to the phallic-oedipal period has been perpetuated in great part by a technical legacy which has tended to restrict reconstructions of the infantile neurosis to the more discursively recoverable libidinal events of that period, and to exclude its preoedipal and aggressive determinants which are more apt to be expressed through the nondiscursive modes of the transference through its acts and self states.
  • (15) Freud retraces the path of our problematic symptoms to a fund of repressed sexual and libidinal energy, whose fettered strivings results in overt neuroses.
  • (16) In this way, paradoxically, the first triangulated object relationship is experienced in a two-person relationship; the first heterosexual relationship develops in a relationship involving two females; the father as libidinal object is discovered in the mother.
  • (17) Results introduces a reflection on coma, its libidinal mobilization and its signification.
  • (18) Consider, too, the song's rap (itself a purportedly transgressive, musical subgenre which, through its very ubiquity in western culture has come to connote precisely its opposite, namely the repressive desublimation of libidinal flows) performed by Jennifer Lopez: "Tonight watch the world unite, world unite, world unite For the fight, fight, fight, one night Watch the world unite, Two sides, one fight and a million eyes."
  • (19) The patient libidinally and defensively identified with father's passive, masochistic position.
  • (20) Lack of confirmation of Mary's talents by her father may have hindered her development, propelling the child toward a profoundly libidinalized and enmeshed relationship with the mother.