sex vs mating

sex and mating both are nouns.

sex is a verb but mating is not a verb.

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

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

sex: activities associated with sexual intercourse
mating: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

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, 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)	mating (noun)
activities associated with sexual intercourse	the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
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)	mating (verb)
tell the sex (of young chickens)
to evoke sexual feelings

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