sex vs sodomy

sex and sodomy both are nouns.

sex is a verb but sodomy is not a verb.

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

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

sex: activities associated with sexual intercourse
sodomy: sexual activity between a person and an animal

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, homosexuality, queerness, bisexuality, heterosexualism, heterosexuality, straightness, bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty, blowbang.

sex (noun)	sodomy (noun)
activities associated with sexual intercourse	intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles	sexual activity between a person and an animal
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)	sodomy (verb)
tell the sex (of young chickens)
to evoke sexual feelings

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