sexual union

Questions about sexual union

What does sexual union mean?

sexual union means "the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes".

What is another word for sexual union?

Close synonyms include coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union. 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 sexual union a common word?

sexual union 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.