sex vs homosexuality

homosexuality vs sex

sex and homosexuality both are nouns.

sex is a verb but homosexuality is not a verb.

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

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

sex: activities associated with sexual intercourse
homosexuality: a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

Other hyponyms of sex include bondage, outercourse, safe sex, conception, 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, queerness, bisexuality, heterosexualism, heterosexuality, straightness, bestiality, sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty, blowbang.

sex (noun)	homosexuality (noun)
activities associated with sexual intercourse	a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses
either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided

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

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