sex vs reproduction

reproduction vs sex

sex and reproduction both are nouns.

sex is a verb but reproduction is not a verb.

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

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

sex: activities associated with sexual intercourse
reproduction: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

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, 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)	reproduction (noun)
activities associated with sexual intercourse	the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles	the act of making copies
all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses	copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided	recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall
	the process of generating offspring

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

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