lovemaking

1. 1.

   sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people

   “his lovemaking disgusted her”

   “he hadn't had any love in months”

   “he has a very complicated love life”

   Synonymssexual lovemaking lovelovelove life

   Broadersexual activity

Other forms of lovemaking

plural

lovemakings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lovemaking

What does lovemaking mean?

lovemaking means "sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people".

How many syllables are in lovemaking?

lovemaking has 3 syllables: lovem-a-king. The stress falls on "lovem". In IPA it is /ˈlʌvmeɪkɪŋ/.

What is another word for lovemaking?

Close synonyms include sexual love, making love, love, love life. 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 lovemaking a common word?

lovemaking is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.