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n. (act) | 1. sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice | activities associated with sexual intercourse.; "they had sex in the back seat" |
| ~ bondage | sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners. |
| ~ outercourse | sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration.; "since pregnancy cannot happen if sperm are kept out of the vagina, outercourse is one method of birth control" |
| ~ safe sex | sexual activity (especially sexual intercourse) with the use of measures (such as latex condoms) to avoid the transmission of disease (especially AIDS). |
| ~ conception | the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon. |
| ~ carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, intercourse, relation, congress | the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur. |
| ~ pleasure | sexual gratification.; "he took his pleasure of her" |
| ~ love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love, love | sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people.; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life" |
| ~ carnal abuse | any lascivious contact by an adult with the sexual organs of a child (especially not involving sexual intercourse). |
| ~ mating, pairing, sexual union, coupling, union, conjugation | the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" |
| ~ facts of life, procreation, breeding, reproduction | the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring. |
| ~ foreplay, arousal, stimulation | mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse. |
| ~ sexual perversion, perversion | an aberrant sexual practice. |
| ~ autoeroticism, autoerotism | using you own body as a sexual object. |
| ~ promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around | indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations. |
| ~ lechery | unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity. |
| ~ gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, queerness | a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex. |
| ~ bisexuality | sexual activity with both men and women. |
| ~ heterosexualism, heterosexuality, straightness | a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex. |
| ~ zooerastia, zooerasty, bestiality | sexual activity between a person and an animal. |
| ~ bodily function, bodily process, body process, activity | an organic process that takes place in the body.; "respiratory activity" |
n. (group) | 2. sex | either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided.; "the war between the sexes" |
| ~ category, class, family | a collection of things sharing a common attribute.; "there are two classes of detergents" |
n. (feeling) | 3. sex, sexual urge | all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses.; "he wanted a better sex life"; "the film contained no sex or violence" |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
n. (attribute) | 4. gender, sex, sexuality | the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles.; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus" |
| ~ physiological property | a property having to do with the functioning of the body. |
| ~ maleness, masculinity | the properties characteristic of the male sex. |
| ~ androgyny, bisexuality, hermaphroditism | showing characteristics of both sexes. |
| ~ femaleness, feminineness | the properties characteristic of the female sex. |
v. (emotion) | 5. arouse, excite, sex, turn on, wind up | stimulate sexually.; "This movie usually arouses the male audience" |
| ~ stimulate, shake up, stir, excite, shake | stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" |
| ~ tempt | try to seduce. |
v. (cognition) | 6. sex | tell the sex (of young chickens). |
| ~ differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, separate, tell | mark as different.; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" |
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