sex vs intercourse

intercourse vs sex

sex and intercourse both are nouns.

sex is a verb but intercourse is not a verb.

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

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

sex: activities associated with sexual intercourse
intercourse: sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Other hyponyms of sex include bondage, outercourse, safe sex, conception, carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, 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)	intercourse (noun)
activities associated with sexual intercourse	sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles	communication between individuals
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)	intercourse (verb)
tell the sex (of young chickens)
to evoke sexual feelings

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