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COITUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coitus mean? 

COITUS (noun)
  The noun COITUS has 1 sense:

1. sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occurplay

  Familiarity information: COITUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COITUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

carnal knowledge; coition; coitus; copulation; intercourse; relation; sex act; sexual congress; sexual intercourse; sexual relation

Hypernyms ("coitus" is a kind of...):

sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)

Meronyms (parts of "coitus"):

insemination (the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coitus"):

defloration (the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse))

ass; fuck; fucking; nookie; nooky; piece of ass; piece of tail; roll in the hay; screw; screwing; shag; shtup (slang for sexual intercourse)

hank panky (illicit sexual intercourse)

penetration (the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman)

criminal congress; unlawful carnal knowledge (forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals)

Derivation:

coital (of or relating to coitus or copulation)


 Context examples 


A disorder characterized by painful or difficult coitus.

(Dyspareunia, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Painful or difficult coitus.

(Dyspareunia, NCI Thesaurus)



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