sex vs sexual union

sexual union vs sex

sex and sexual union both are nouns.

sex is a verb but sexual union is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sex	Yes	No	Yes	No
sexual union	Yes	No	No	No

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

sex: activities associated with sexual intercourse
sexual union: 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, mating, pairing, 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)	sexual union (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)	sexual union (verb)
tell the sex (of young chickens)
to evoke sexual feelings

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