| 单词 | sex instinct |
| 释义 | > as lemmassex instinct sex instinct n. [compare French instinct sexuel (1835)] the behaviour and feelings associated with sexual reproduction considered as an instinct for the survival of the species; (also) = sex impulse n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sex drive or instinct sex impulse1883 sex instinct1883 libido1909 sex drive1916 sex urge1920 1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 911 Sex instinct could not have existed prior to the origin of the male sex. 1898 C. P. Stetson Women & Econ. iii. 56 What business has a little girl with the instincts of maternity?.. They are sex-instincts, and should not appear till the period of adolescence. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ix The sex instinct that Miriam had over-refined for so long now grew particularly strong. 1931 Times 3 Aug. 13/3 We talked about a sex instinct, but it was very blunt. 1976 A. Montagu Nature of Human Aggression (1978) iv. 64 Everyone ‘knows’ from his or her own experience that there is such a thing as a sex instinct. 1996 Jrnl. Social & Evolutionary Syst. 19 97 Freud reduced everything to the omnipresent and omnipotent role of the sex instinct: Eros is the sex instinct and love is Eros. < as lemmas |
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