sex

1. Activities associated with sexual intercourse (synset 100845915)
   "they had sex in the back seat"
   tells us about:

   • heterosexual - sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
   • homosexual - sexually attracted to members of your own sex
   is a type of: activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process - an organic process that takes place in the body
   subtypes:

   • bondage - sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
   • outercourse - sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration
   • 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, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation - sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
   • pleasure - sexual gratification
   • love, love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love - sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
   • carnal abuse - any lascivious contact by an adult with the sexual organs of a child (especially not involving sexual intercourse)
   • conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union - the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
   • breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction - the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
   • arousal, foreplay, stimulation - mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
   • perversion, sexual 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
   • bestiality, sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty - sexual activity between a person and an animal
   same as: sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice
2. Either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided (synset 108015733)
   "the war between the sexes"
   is a type of: category, class, family - a collection of things sharing a common attribute
3. All of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses (synset 107502835)
   "he wanted a better sex life"; "the film contained no sex or violence"
   is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states
   same as: sexual urge
4. The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles (synset 105014082)
   "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
   tells us about:

   • male - being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
   • female - being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
   • androgynous - having both male and female characteristics
   • sexual - having or involving sex
   • asexual, nonsexual - not having or involving sex
   is a type of: physiological property - a property having to do with the functioning of the body
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: gender, sexuality

1. Stimulate sexually (synset 201766135)
   "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
   is a type of: excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir - stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
   subtypes: tempt - try to seduce
   same as: arouse, excite, turn on, wind up
2. Tell the sex (of young chickens) (synset 200653301)
   is a type of: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart - mark as different

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