Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "sex" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

backseat of car bedroom hotel rest area

Capable Of

amount to nothing at all cloud judgment cost money delight nearly feel good last 30 seconds last hour making love please person require condom sell beer transmit disease wonderful thing

Causes

burning calories children herpes orgasm pregnancy rug burn unwanted pregnancies venereal disease venerial decease

Causes Desire

eat breakfast have shower love another see art smoke wait for

Coordinate Terms

gender

Dbpedia Genre

fantasy

Derived Terms

Sexgate Sexville altersex ambisextrous anal sex antisex battle of the sexes better than sex bio-sex biological sex biosex birth sex boatsex bum sex butt sex casual sex chemsex child sex abuse child sex tourism compusex cross sex cross-sex cybersex desex disorder of sex development doublesex dry sex ecosex electrosex endosex eye sex eye-sex fair sex fairer sex foresex gendersex gentle sex gentler sex group sex hate sex hate-sex have sex heterosex imposex insta-sex intercrural sex intersex intersexness intrasex leathersex legal sex make-up sex manual sex midsex missex mixed-sex monosex multisex netsex nonpenetrative sex nonsex opposite sex oral sex other-sex perisex phone sex phone-sex postsex presex pro-sex protected sex pure sex purple shirt of sex rectal sex resex safe sex safer sex same sex same-sex same-sex marriage secondary sex characteristic self-sexing sex abuse sex act sex activity sex addict sex addiction sex affair sex aid sex and shopping sex antagonism sex appeal sex assignment sex attack sex attractant sex awareness sex behavior sex behaviour sex bolt sex bomb sex boycott sex bracelet sex call sex cell sex change sex character sex characteristic sex chromatin sex chromosome sex circuit sex clinic sex club sex comb sex comedy sex complex sex compulsion sex conflict sex consciousness sex contrast sex cord sex correlation sex craving sex crime sex criminal sex cult sex determinant sex determination sex determiner sex difference sex discrimination sex disqualification sex distinction sex distribution sex divergence sex doll sex drive sex drug sex dungeon sex economy sex ed sex education sex educator sex emotion sex equality sex excitement sex experience sex exploitation sex feeling sex festival sex fiend sex film sex flush sex function sex game sex gene sex gland sex god sex goddess sex guru sex hair sex heredity sex hormone sex hormone binding globulin sex hormone-binding globulin sex hygiene sex impulse sex in sex industry sex instinct sex instruction sex interest sex intergrade sex joke sex killer sex kitten sex laborer sex labourer sex life sex line sex love sex machine sex magazine sex man sex mania sex maniac sex manifestation sex manual sex morality sex mosaic sex movie sex negativity sex novel sex number sex object sex obsession sex offence sex offender sex offense sex on a stick sex on legs sex on the beach sex organ sex orgy sex pact sex pal sex partner sex party sex pest sex pillow sex play sex plus sex position sex positivity sex power sex pride sex privilege sex problem sex question sex ratio sex reassignment sex reassignment surgery sex relation sex relationship sex repression sex reveal sex reversal sex ring sex role sex scandal sex scene sex selection sex sells sex shop sex show sex slave sex slavery sex starvation sex stereotype sex stereotyping sex steroid sex story sex strike sex surfer sex surrogate sex swing sex symbol sex talk sex tape sex therapist sex therapy sex thrill sex tool sex tour sex tourism 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sexcation sexcellent sexcess sexcessory sexcite sexdom sexdroid sexer sexercise sexfest sexfight sexful sexhaustion sexhibition sexhibitionist sexhood sexify sexile sexism sexist sexless sexlike sexlinked sexlore sexly sexmobile sexmonger sexo sexologist sexology sexophobe sexophobia sexophobic sexorcism sexpat sexpect sexpectation sexpedition sexperience sexperiment sexperimental sexperimentation sexpert sexpertise sexphobia sexphobic sexpionage sexpiration date sexpletive sexplicit sexploit sexploitation sexploiter sexploration sexplore sexplorer sexpo sexposition sexposé sexpot sexpreading sexpresso sexsational sexship sexsurfing sextacular sextastic sexterity sexting sextopia sextort sextortion sextra sextracurricular sextravaganza sextremism sextremist sexway sexwear sexwise sexworthy sexx0r sexy single-sex softer sex solo sex stern sex sterner sex succsex succsexful supersex survival sex tantric sex technosex telephone sex third sex tinysex transsex unisex unprotected sex unsafe sex unsex unsexlike urethral sex vaginal sex vent sex viral sex virtual sex weaker sex whimsical sex zipper sex

Etymologically Related To

sect

Inflected/Variant Forms

sect

Has Part

effect of burning calories effect of clearing one's mind effect of insemination

Context

euphemism literary slang us zoology

Has Property

better with like confusing but fun dirty fun good great great fun nice painful pleasant pleasurable pleasurable but dangerous

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

activity bodily function bodily process body process category class differentiate distinguish excite family feeling physiological property secern secernate separate severalise severalize shake shake up species stimulate stir tell tell apart

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

bigender clergy eunuch genderfluid genderless homosexual intersex male and female transgender

Type Of (IsA)

activity biological function book bourgoise class copulation enjoyable activity facet collection feeling good thing heart pounding experience leisure activity messy activity motivator for most people not often physiological property pleasure primarily for procreation species sweaty activity three letter word way to earn money

Manner Of

distinguish

Not Has Property

just for procreation

Part Of

human experience make love procreation reproductive cycle

Receives Action

supposed to fun

Related Terms

female gender gendersex intersexed male missexed missexing sex up sexual sexualiation sexualise sexuality sexualization sexualize sexually third sex unsex

Related Terms

activity animal base basis categories category determine distinction divide female gender genitalia have human intercourse intersexed male member missexed motion organism penis people procreation relation reproducing reproductive role sex up sexual sexual intercourse sexuality sexualization sexualize sexually species these third sex two two people unsex vagina women

Synonym Network

arouse gender hex make love sexual activity sexual intercourse

Used For

make babies making babies pleasure pleasure or procreation procreating life procreation procresation recreation recreation and procreation

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.