Label (n.)

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘label: (n.) fig. a short classifying phrase or name applied to a person, work of art, idea, etc. (Oxford Dictionary).

Label (v.)

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘label: (v.) fig. describe or designate as with a label; categorise. (Oxford Dictionary).

Labile:

Lackadaisical: 

lackadaisical (adj.): 1. characterised by a lack of effort, care, or involvement; [e.g.]: “There’ll be no time to correct lackadaisical driving techniques after trouble develops”. (William J. Hampton); 2. lacking enthusiasm or interest; listless; casually lazy; [e.g.]: “If you weren’t so lackadaisical in your studies, you wouldn’t be so far behind in class”; (adv.): lackadaisically; (n.): lackadaisicalness; (usage note): the first two syllables of lackadaisical are pronounced ‘lack-uh’; some people use the pronunciation ‘lack-suh', as though the word were spelled ‘lacks-a-daisical’ or ‘lax-a-daisical’; the confusion is probably semantic – someone who is lackadaisical could be said to have a lax attitude; in the 2014 survey conducted by the American Heritage Dictionary, those surveyed overwhelmingly preferred the traditional pronunciation; only twelve percent of them found the lax pronunciation to be acceptable, and only six-point-five percent reported they use it as their own preferred pronunciation. {Ha! the preceding ‘usage-note’ is nothing but pettifogging nitpicking at the lowest levels a trivialist⁽*⁾ can sink to because, just as ‘lack-a-daisy’ is an extended form of ‘lack-a-day’, then so too is ‘lacks-a-daisical’ an extended form of ‘lack-a-daisical’}. [from lackadaisy, ‘alas’ extended form of lackaday (another word for ‘alas’ from “alack the day”) + -ical]. [curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

⁽*⁾trivialist (n.): someone who deals with or is interested in trivialities. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Lacunae:

• lacuna (n.; pl. lacunae or lacunas): 1. an empty space or a missing part; a gap; [e.g.]: “self-centred in opinion, with curious lacunae of astounding ignorance”. (Frank Norris); 2. (anatomy): a cavity, space, or depression, especially in a bone, containing cartilage or bone cells; (adj.): lacunal, lacunose, lacunary; (n.): lacunosity. [Latin lacūna, ‘pool’, ‘hollow’, ‘gap’, from lacus, ‘lake’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• lacuna (n.): an interval during which continuity is suspended; (synonyms): break, gap, hiatus, interim, void. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Left Field:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘left field: fig. a position away from the centre of activity or interest; a state of ignorance, confusion, or unreality’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Lede:

lede, also lead (n.): the first sentence or paragraph of a news story, giving the most important points of the story; [e.g.]: “Check out this lede from Monday’s front page story”; (idiom; US English): bury the lede/lead: ​to give the most important point of a news story near the end instead of at the beginning; [e.g.]: “Unfortunately, he buried the lede in the last paragraph of the story”. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

Lese-Majesty:

lese-majesty (n.): 1. the insulting of a monarch or other ruler; treason; [e.g.]: ‘the Shah would whip him for his lese-majesty’; ‘The junta used lese-majesty as an excuse to stage the military coup that toppled Thaksin Shinawatra’s government’; 1.1. presumptuous or disrespectful behaviour; [e.g.]: ‘he responded to the lese-majesty of the young man with an arctic stare’. [origin: Late Middle English: from French lèse-majesté, from Latin laesa majesta, ‘injured sovereignty’]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

Liaison:

liaison (n.): a sexual relationship, especially when at least one person is married or involved in a sexual relationship with someone else; (intr.v.): liasoned, liasoning, liaisons. [French, from Old French, from Latin ligātiō , ligātiōn-, from ligātus, past participle of ligāre, ‘to bind’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Libidinosity:

libidinosity (n.): lustfulness. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Libidinous:

libidinous (adj.): “lustful”, mid-15th century, from Old French libidineus, ‘sinful, lusty’ (13th century, Modern libidineux) or directly from Latin libīdinosus, ‘full of desire’, ‘lustful’, from libīdō, “pleasure, desire, sensual passion, lust”; see libido[§]. Related: libidinously {=lustfully, lasciviously; lewdly}; libidinousness {=amativeness, amorousness; concupiscence}; libidinosity {=pruriency, lechery; lubricity}. *These are older in English than libido, libidinal* {libidinal=belonging to the libido; [e.g.]: “libidinal impulses”; “libidinal gratification”}, *which are from modern psychology*. [emphases and curly bracketed inserts added]. ~ (Online Etymology Dictionary).

[§]libido (n.): “psychic drive or energy, usually associated with sexual instinct”, *1892, carried over untranslated in English edition of Krafft-Ebing’s “Psychopathia Sexualis”*; and used in 1909 in A. A. Brill’s translation of Freud’s “Selected Papers on Hysteria” (Freud’s use of the term led to its popularity). [from Latin libīdō, ‘libido’: “desire, eagerness, longing; inordinate desire, sensual passion, lust”, from libēre, “to be pleasing, to please”]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Online Etymology Dictionary).

There is Life After Feelings:

Another idiomatic expression ... as in ‘there is life after forty’, and ‘there is life after retirement’, and ‘there is life after menopause’, and so on.

Locus Classicus:

locus classicus (n.): an authoritative and often quoted passage from a standard work. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Logicist:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘logicist: a (mathematical) logician; an adherent or student of logicism [the theory that a set of axioms for mathematics can be deduced from a primitive set of purely logical axioms]. (Oxford Dictionary).

Logomach:

logomach (n.): someone given to disputes over words; (synonyms): logomachist, controversialist, disputant, eristic (a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy).~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

Logomachy:

logomachy (n.): contention in words only, or a contention about words; a war of words; logomachic and *logomachical* (adj.): characterised by logomachy or verbal fencing. [from Late Greek λογομαχια [logomachia], ‘war about words’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

Love:

‘Love can be distilled into three categories: lust, attraction, and attachment; though there are overlaps and subtleties to each, each type is characterised by its own set of hormones; testosterone and oestrogen drive lust; dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin create attraction; and oxytocin and vasopressin mediate attachment (...); the testes and ovaries secrete the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen, driving sexual desire; dopamine, oxytocin, and vasopressin are all made in the hypothalamus, a region of the brain which controls many vital functions as well as emotion; lust and attraction shut off the prefrontal cortex of the brain, *which includes rational behaviour*...“. [emphasis added].

[https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/].

Loyal Opposition:

Lubricious: 

lubricious (adj.): 1. full of or displaying sexual desire; 2. sexually stimulating; salacious (adv.): lubriciously; (n.): lubriciousness. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Lucubration:

lucubration (n.): 1. laborious work, study, thought, etc., esp. at night; 2. the result of such activity, as a learned speech or dissertation; 3. (often, lucubrations): any literary effort, esp. of a pretentious or solemn nature. [1585-95; from Latin lūcubrātus, past participle of lūcubrāre, ‘to work by artificial light’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

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