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Type Words
Synonyms gender, sexuality
Type of physiological property
Has types androgyny, femaleness, hermaphroditism, maleness, masculinity, feminineness, bisexuality


she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus.
Type Words
Synonyms sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice
Type of body process, bodily function, bodily process, activity
Has types bondage, breeding, carnal abuse, carnal knowledge, coupling, arousal, autoeroticism, autoerotism, bestiality, bisexuality, homosexuality, intercourse, lechery, love, love life, lovemaking, making love, 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, sodomy, stimulation, straightness, union, zooerastia, zooerasty, coition, coitus, conception, conjugation, copulation, facts of life, foreplay, gayness, heterosexualism, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism
Derivation sexual


they had sex in the back seat.
Type Words
Synonyms sexual urge
Type of feeling
Derivation sexy


he wanted a better sex life.
the film contained no sex or violence.
Type Words
Synonyms arouse, excite, turn on, wind up
Type of stimulate, excite, shake, shake up, stir
Has types tempt
Type Words
Type of family, category, class


the war between the sexes.
Type Words
Type of secern, severalize, differentiate, distinguish, tell, tell apart, separate, severalise, secernate

Examples of sex

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Some states even put offenders against animals on their sex offender registries.
From the desmoinesregister.com
A student in Xi'an, she says she started having sex with her boyfriend in March.
From the thenewstribune.com
Elvis Presley represented sex and freedom for many Boomers when they were young.
From the usatoday.com
She sounds like a complete psycho control freak who equates self-worth with sex.
From the sacbee.com
More also received oral sex from a 15-year-old during the 2009-2010 school year.
From the thenewstribune.com
We need to teach our children to just say no to premarital and extramarital sex.
From the omaha.com
Hannah points out that his sex scenes are all choreographed like a dance number.
From the dailynews.com
She has brought the charges, even though they had previously had consensual sex.
From the timesunion.com
He is accused of contacting a boy on Facebook and arranging to meet him for sex.
From the stltoday.com
More examples
  • Arouse: stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
  • Sexual activity: activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"
  • Either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"
  • Tell the sex (of young chickens)
  • 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"
  • The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
  • In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety (known as a sex). Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells (gametes) to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents. ...
  • Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which the male reproductive organ enters the female reproductive tract. Britannica entry. The two entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails. ...
  • Sex is the debut album by Australian improvised music trio, The Necks, originally released on the Spral Scratch label and later rereleased on Fish of Milk and Private Music in the US. ...