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Sex

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Category 76% connected

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or…

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Class 76% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Differentiate 76% connected

To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to…

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Distinguish 76% connected

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Family 76% connected

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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Feeling 76% connected

of Feel

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Secern 76% connected

To separate; to distinguish.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Severalize 76% connected

To distinguish.

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Shake 76% connected

obs. p. p. of Shake.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Stir 76% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Narrower term 31

Androgyny 76% connected

Alt. of Androgynism

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Arousal 76% connected

The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused.

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Bestiality 76% connected

The state or quality of being bestial.

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Bondage 76% connected

The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.

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Breeding 76% connected

of Breed

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Coition 76% connected

A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation.

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Conception 76% connected

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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Conjugation 76% connected

the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.

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Copulation 76% connected

The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

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Coupling 76% connected

of Couple

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Feminineness 76% connected

The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.

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Gayness 76% connected

Gayety; finery.

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Hermaphroditism 76% connected

The union of the two sexes in the same individual, or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual.

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Intercourse 76% connected

A commingling; intimate connection or dealings between persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in correspondence or trade; communica…

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Lechery 76% connected

Free indulgence of lust; lewdness.

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Love 76% connected

A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderne…

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Masculinity 76% connected

The state or quality of being masculine; masculineness.

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Mating 76% connected

of Mate

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Pairing 76% connected

of Pair

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Perversion 76% connected

The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to someth…

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Pleasure 76% connected

The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or…

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Procreation 76% connected

The act of begetting; generation and production of young.

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Promiscuity 76% connected

Promiscuousness; confusion.

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Promiscuousness 76% connected

The quality or state of being promiscuous.

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Queerness 76% connected

The quality or state of being queer.

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Relation 76% connected

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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Reproduction 76% connected

The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced

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Sodomy 76% connected

Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery.

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Stimulation 76% connected

The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.

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Straightness 76% connected

The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.

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Union 76% connected

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

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Manner of action 1

Tempt 76% connected

To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

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Derivationally related 4

Excite 74% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Excite 74% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Gender 74% connected

Kind; sort.

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Gender 74% connected

Kind; sort.

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Asexual 66% connected

Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

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Asexual 66% connected

Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

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Female 66% connected

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

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Female 66% connected

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

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Male 66% connected

Evil; wicked; bad.

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Male 66% connected

Evil; wicked; bad.

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Nonsexual 66% connected

Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.

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Nonsexual 66% connected

Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.

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Sexual 66% connected

Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive geni…

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Sexual 66% connected

Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive geni…

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Synonym 4

Arouse 92% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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Excite 92% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gender 92% connected

Kind; sort.

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Sexuality 92% connected

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

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