sex vs conception

conception vs sex

sex and conception both are nouns.

sex is a verb but conception is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sex	Yes	No	Yes	No
conception	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, conception is a hyponym of sex; that is, conception is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sex:

sex: activities associated with sexual intercourse
conception: the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon

Other hyponyms of sex include bondage, outercourse, safe sex, carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, pleasure, love, love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love, carnal abuse, conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union, breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction, arousal, foreplay, stimulation, perversion, sexual perversion, autoeroticism, autoerotism, promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around, lechery, gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, queerness, bisexuality, heterosexualism, heterosexuality, straightness, bestiality, sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty, blowbang.

sex (noun)	conception (noun)
activities associated with sexual intercourse	the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles	an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses	the creation of something in the mind
either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided	the event that occurred at the beginning of something

sex (verb)	conception (verb)
tell the sex (of young chickens)
to evoke sexual feelings

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