sexual love
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4.9
- noun
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amor sexual
- She felt a rush of emotions as they explored their sexual love during a romantic getaway.
Examples
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It would not make sense in this verse to compare platonic love for a man with sexual love for a woman; they are two completely different phenomena.
Blog text (12) -
He told a poet friend that he was philosophically opposed to having one "Iseult" for his vocation (poetry) and another for his avocation (sexual love).
Academic text (1996) -
Since David's only relationships with women would have been sexual in nature, then he must be referring to sexual love here.
Blog text (12) -
It would appear that David is referring to his sexual love for Jonathan.
Blog text (12) -
He accused Kay of betraying their love through the act of denying their love and of pretending that it never was sexual love.
Academic text (1996) -
Sexual love, filtered through the injustice of society's restrictions, brings about the destruction of many characters.
Academic text (2000) -
Yet that same reticence enhanced the imperatives of sexual love, making such feeling almost tangible and certainly hard to gainsay.
Academic text (2000) -
Their relationship blossomed from a deep friendship into a profound sexual love filled with passion and desire.
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Many writers have attempted to capture the essence of sexual love in their poetry and novels.
Synonyms
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1.0
A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction for another person
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3.2
A relationship between two people who have sex with each other
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3.3
A very strong sexual desire or attraction to someone
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3.4
Sex between people, for example in a romantic or casual relationship
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9.9
A strong sexual attraction to someone
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3.8
A strong wish to have sex with another person
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3.2
A feeling of wanting to have sex with someone
A strong feeling of sexual desire and attraction for another person
A strong feeling of love or desire for someone
Antonyms
How Passionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a direct composition of 'sexual' (pertaining to sex) and 'love' (strong affection/attraction), so the meaning — romantic and physical attraction involving sexual desire — is transparently derivable from its parts. This is a common, cross-linguistic combinatory pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Sexual love joins sexual (about physical desire) and love (a deep feeling for someone). It gives the image of two people who feel close emotionally and also want each other physically, so the phrase means 'romantic and physical attraction'.