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lovemaking
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lovemaking, n.
1 amorous sexual activity, esp. sexual intercourse.
2 archaic courtship.
1 amorous sexual activity, esp. sexual intercourse.
2 archaic courtship.
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lovemaking
Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, act of love, admiration, adoration, adultery, affection, agape, aphrodisia, ardency, ardor, ass, attachment, balling, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, carnal knowledge, carnality, charity, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, coldness, commerce, congress, conjugal love, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, desire, devotion, diddling, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, flesh, fleshliness, fondness, fornication, free love, free-lovism, frigidity, heart, hero worship, idolatry, idolism, idolization, impotence, intercourse, intimacy, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, love, making it with, marital relations, marriage, marriage act, married love, mating, meat, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, passion, physical love, popular regard, popularity, potency, procreation, regard, relations, screwing, sensuality, sentiment, sex, sex act, sex drive, sexiness, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual instinct, sexual intercourse, sexual love, sexual relations, sexual union, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, shine, sleeping with, sperm, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, venery, voluptuousness, weakness, worship, yearningROGET THESAURUS
lovemaking
Endearment
N endearment, caress, blandishment, blandiment, panchement, fondling, billing and cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky, caressing, embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation, deosculation, amorous glances, courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment, lovemaking, serenading, caterwauling, flirting, flirtation, gallantry, coquetry, true lover's knot, plighted love, love tale, love token, love letter, billet-doux, valentine, honeymoon, Strephon and Chloe, caressing, sighing like furnace, love-sick, spoony, caressed, faint heart neer won fair lady, kisses honeyed by oblivion.Sexuality
N sex, sexuality, gender, male, masculinity, maleness, female, femininity, sexual intercourse, copulation, mating, coitus, sex, lovemaking, marital relations, sexual union, sleeping together, carnal knowledge, sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence, hots, horns, arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus, tumescence, erection, hard-on, boner, masturbation, self-gratification, autoeroticism, onanism, self- abuse, orgasm, climax, ejaculation, sexiness, attractiveness, sensuality, voluptuousness, fornication, adultery, sex symbol, sex goddess, stud, hunk, one-night stand, pornography, porn, porno, hardcore pornography, softcore pornography, pin-up, cheesecake, beefcake, Playboy, Esquire, Hustler, perversion, deviation, sexual abnormality, fetish, fetishism, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, sodomy, buggery, pederasty, sadism, masochism, sado-masochism, incest, sexy, erotic, sexual, carnal, sensual, hot, horny, randy, rutting, passionate, lusty, hot-blooded, libidinous, up, in the mood, homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual.For further exploring for "lovemaking" in Webster Dictionary Online