Synonyms for sex
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WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.8 / 5 votes

1. sexnoun

   Sexual intercourse; the act of sexual intercourse.

   Synonyms:
   sexual intercourse, coitus

2. sexnoun

   Synonyms:
   gender

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. sex

   Sex is a distinction among living beings; it is also the characteristic by which most living beings are distinguished from inanimate things, which are of no sex; gender is a distinction in language partially corresponding to this distinction in nature; while there are but two sexes, there are in some languages, as in English and German, three genders. The French language has but two genders and makes the names of all inanimate objects either masculine or feminine; some languages are without the distinction of gender, and those that maintain it are often quite arbitrary in its application. We speak of the masculine or feminine gender, the male or female sex.

   Synonyms:
   gender

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activitynoun

   activities associated with sexual intercourse

   "they had sex in the back seat"

   Synonyms:
   sexual practice, sexual activity, sexuality, sex activity, sexual urge, gender

2. sexnoun

   either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided

   "the war between the sexes"

   Synonyms:
   sexual practice, sexual activity, sexuality, sex activity, sexual urge, gender

3. sex, sexual urgenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   sexual practice, sexual activity, sexuality, sex activity, sexual urge, gender

4. sex, gender, sexualityverb

   the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

   "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"

   Synonyms:
   sexual urge, grammatical gender, sexuality, sexual practice, sexual activity, gender, sex activity

5. arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind upverb

   stimulate sexually

   "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

   Synonyms:
   wind, trip out, kindle, charge, excite, end up, arouse, put forward, awake, trip, shake up, shake, come alive, get off, commove, energize, perk up, agitate, hinge on, enkindle, wake up, stir, wake, elicit, energise, finish, stimulate, fire, rouse, finish up, bring up, depend upon, conjure up, fetch up, ride, depend on, devolve on, land up, hinge upon, raise, waken, turn on, call down, provoke, wind up, call forth, invoke, charge up, awaken, brace, evoke, conjure, switch on

6. sexverb

   tell the sex (of young chickens)

   Synonyms:
   wind up, arouse, excite, turn on

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1. sexnoun

   Associated words:
   sexual, gender, bisexual, unisexual, epicene, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditism, androgyne, androgyny, gonad

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "sex":

   gender, sexual, love, sexuality, intercourse, sexes, sex-, sex-standardized, six, sexually, nationality, gender-, sex-specific, obscene

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1. Vanessa Marin:

   It’s in pretty much every article; it says to talk about sex, but it ends there.

2. Linda Kay Klein:

   The sex was n’t traumatic, it was quite beautiful because I ’d learned, by that point, to separate sexuality from spirituality, it felt like a holy experience — as if God was in the room with us.

3. Anthea Butler:

   They are in many ways like conservative evangelicals, no same-sex marriage and no abortion, it's a 19th-century religion that comes out of a space where health and holiness was important. But they have this leader who is a woman, Ellen G. White, and they veer off of traditional mainline Christianity.

4. Martha Burk:

   We do not take sex discrimination as seriously as we do race, that is an extreme imbalance. Women's representation has to reach a critical mass before meaningful change can be made and most experts consider that around 30 percent and that they are no longer seen as a special interest group.

5. Bill Cosby:

   She meets me backstage. I give her Quaaludes. We then have sex.