| Main Entry: | lovemaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual activity |
Synonyms: |
carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, coquetting, courting, courtship, cuddling, dalliance, fondling, fooling around, foreplay, hugging, intercourse, intimacy, kissing, mating, screwing, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, smooching, snuggling, sucking face |
| Main Entry: | courtship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dating, romance |
Synonyms: |
courting, engagement, keeping company, love, lovemaking, pursuit, suit, wooing |
| Main Entry: | foreplay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondling |
Synonyms: |
action*, caress, cuddling, heavy petting, kissing, lovemaking, making out, necking, oral sex, petting, sex, sexual activity |
| Main Entry: | fornication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual intercourse |
Synonyms: |
coition, coitus, copulation, intimacy, lovemaking, relations, screwing around, sex, sleeping around |
| Main Entry: | intercourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual act |
Synonyms: |
carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, fornication, intimacy, love-making, relations, sex, sexual relations |
| Main Entry: | necking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kissing |
Synonyms: |
canoodling, caressing, cuddling, embracing, fondling, lovemaking, making love, making out, parking, petting, smooching, sucking face |
| Main Entry: | sex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intercourse between animate beings |
Synonyms: |
birds and the bees, coition, coitus, copulation, facts of life, fornication, generation, intimacy, lovemaking, magnetism, procreation, relations, reproduction, sensuality, sexuality |
| Notes: | gender is the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; sex is either of the two categories, male or female, into which most organisms are divided |
Antonyms: |
abstention, chastity |
| Main Entry: | copulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coitus |
Synonyms: |
carnal knowledge, coition, coupling, fooling around, fornication, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, mating, nooky, procreation, relations, sex, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union |
| Main Entry: | kissing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | osculation |
Synonyms: |
bussing, caressing, embracing, love-making, making out, necking, parking, petting, smooching, spooning, sucking face |
| Main Entry: | sexual relations |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | having sex |
Synonyms: |
carnal knowledge, cohabitation, coitus, copulation, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, marital relations, mating, nookie, relations, screwing, sexual intercourse, sexual union, sleeping together, sleeping with |