sexual activity vs carnal abuse

carnal abuse vs sexual activity

sexual activity and carnal abuse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sexual activity	Yes	No	No	No
carnal abuse	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, carnal abuse is a hyponym of sexual activity; that is, carnal abuse is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sexual activity:

sexual activity: activities associated with sexual intercourse
carnal abuse: any lascivious contact by an adult with the sexual organs of a child (especially not involving sexual intercourse)

Other hyponyms of sexual activity 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, 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.

sexual activity (noun)	carnal abuse (noun)
activities associated with sexual intercourse	sexual intercourse with a person (girl or boy) who has not reached the age of consent (even if both parties participate willingly)
	any lascivious contact by an adult with the sexual organs of a child (especially not involving sexual intercourse)

Difference between sexual activity and carnal abuse

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