noun

• 1Sexual activity, especially sexual intercourse.

  ‘When things were good between them, the line usually led to passionate foreplay followed by intense lovemaking.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘We had 2.5 wonderful days of lovemaking, talking, sleeping in each other's arms, showers together, and then I could feel him withdrawing over the last day.’
  • ‘The lovemaking was so soulful, we had such a beautiful connection.’
  • ‘Before childbirth, I'd usually been able to achieve an orgasm during lovemaking.’
  • ‘Where lovemaking is a genuine expression of love rather than just sexual gratification both women and men are empowered by the relationship.’

  Synonyms

  sex, making love, sexual intercourse, intercourse, sexual relations, sex act, act of love, intimate relations, intimacy, sexual union, coupling, sexual congress, congress, mating, going to bed with someone, sleeping with someone

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• 2archaic Courtship.