postcoital
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Occurring after, or as a consequence of, sex.
Example Sentences
- "The patient suffered from postcoital malaise."
- "Post-coital tristesse, like post-coital jouissance, is known only to the human animal and occurs as orgasm most often signals the end of immediate sexual excitement, if not the end of the pursuit of further sexual pleasure."
- "The most suspenseful Sex Box ever got was when Frostrup rushed up to the couples as they emerged from the box and attempted to interview them with all the peppy urgency of Erin Andrews at the Super Bowl, and you had to wonder whether the poor, blindsided, post-coital people would be able to do anything more than stare at the camera in abject horror."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English coital English postcoital From post- + coital.