Meanings
plural coitions
- uncountableusuallySexual intercourse.
A mare put to a stallion fell dead at the end of coition.
1907, Byron Robinson, The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain with Automatic Visceral Ganglia, page 2333 more examples
their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of horses, as we are informed by some who have beheld them in that act
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLCSex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man.
1961, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the UnconsciousAll sages and physicians agree in saying that the ills which afflict man originate with the abuse of coition.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 91Synonyms: coitus
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSexual intercourse.
More synonyms by meaning
nounsexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latincoitiō
- Englishcoition
From the oblique stem of Latin coitiō.
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