carnal knowledge

Questions about carnal knowledge

What does carnal knowledge mean?

carnal knowledge means "sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur".

What is another word for carnal knowledge?

Close synonyms include sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carnal knowledge a common word?

carnal knowledge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.