sex
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Definitions
Noun
activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"
Noun
either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"
Noun
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"
Noun
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn''t want to know the sex of the foetus"
Verb
stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
Verb
tell the sex (of young chickens)
Synonyms
arouse
excite
gender
sex activity
sexual activity
sexual practice
sexual urge
sexuality
turn on
wind up
More General Terms
activity
bodily function
bodily process
body process
category
class
differentiate
distinguish
excite
family
feeling
physiological property
secern
secernate
separate
severalise
severalize
shake
shake up
stimulate
stir
tell
tell apart
More Specific Terms
androgyny
arousal
autoeroticism
autoerotism
bestiality
bisexuality
bondage
breeding
carnal abuse
carnal knowledge
coition
coitus
conception
congress
conjugation
copulation
coupling
facts of life
femaleness
feminineness
foreplay
gayness
hermaphroditism
heterosexualism
heterosexuality
homoeroticism
homosexualism
homosexuality
intercourse
lechery
love
love life
lovemaking
making love
maleness
masculinity
mating
outercourse
pairing
perversion
pleasure
procreation
promiscuity
promiscuousness
queerness
relation
reproduction
safe sex
sex act
sexual congress
sexual intercourse
sexual love
sexual perversion
sexual relation
sexual union
sleeping around
stimulation
straightness
tempt
union
zooerastia
zooerasty