sexual activity vs copulation

copulation vs sexual activity

sexual activity and copulation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sexual activity	Yes	No	No	No
copulation	Yes	No	No	No

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

sexual activity: activities associated with sexual intercourse
copulation: sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Other hyponyms of sexual activity include bondage, outercourse, safe sex, conception, carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, 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, sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty, blowbang.

sexual activity (noun)	copulation (noun)
activities associated with sexual intercourse	sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Difference between sexual activity and copulation

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