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sex life

/ˈsɛksˌlaɪf/

sex life noun: that part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity.

Noun

sex life (plural sex lives)

  1. That part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity.
    • But I cannot live the sex life, although I have married you.1900 January 27, Swami Vivekananda, My Life And Mission, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 8: Lectures And Discourses
    • It not infrequently happens that after a love-marriage and some years of what is considered happiness, the man or woman may withdraw from the sex-life, often looking down upon it, and considering that they have reached a higher plane by so doing. But such people seldom ask themselves if, while they...1918, Marie Stopes, Married Love, section 8

sex life meaning in Tamil

sex life in Tamil

பாலியல் வாழ்க்கை

Examples of sex life in a sentence

  • Do you think I don't know the foulness of your sex life—and her's?—I do.1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXIII, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for...
  • Oh and by the way, how is your sex life?2008 January 24, Steven Mithen, “When We Were Nicer”, in London Review of Books, volume 30, number 02, →ISSN:

Forms of sex life

pluralsex lives

Questions about sex life

What does sex life mean?
Sex life means that part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity.
What is sex life in Tamil?
Sex life in Tamil is பாலியல் வாழ்க்கை. See Sex life meaning in Tamil.
How do you use sex life in a sentence?
Do you think I don't know the foulness of your sex life—and her's?—I do.
What part of speech is sex life?
Sex life is a noun.
How do you pronounce sex life?
Sex life is pronounced /ˈsɛksˌlaɪf/.
What is the plural of sex life?
The plural of sex life is sex lives.

Words near sex life in the dictionary

  1. sex kittens
  2. sex laborer
  3. sex laborers
  4. sex labourer
  5. sex labourers
  6. sex life
  7. sex line
  8. sex lines
  9. sex lives
  10. sex machine
  11. sex machines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sex life (page history and authors); sex life (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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