noun
- Activities associated with sexual intercourse.
- usage: "they had sex in the back seat"
- synonyms: sexual activity, sexual practice, sex activity
- Either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided.
- usage: "the war between the sexes"
- All of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses.
- usage: "he wanted a better sex life"; "the film contained no sex or violence"
- synonyms: sexual urge
- The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles.
- usage: "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
verb
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