carnal knowledge
Physical biblical knowing
Carnal knowledge is a legal and biblical term for sexual intercourse.
The phrase appears in statutes defining crimes like rape or statutory rape: He was charged with carnal knowledge of a minor.
Outside legal contexts, the term sounds archaic or deliberately formal, often used for ironic effect.
Sexual joining of bodies
- intercourseCommunication or sexual connection
- copulationSexual joining of bodies
- penetrationEntry into something
- consummationFinal completion or achievement
procreation · conception · reproduction · genitalia · ejaculation · virginity · defloration · sexual contact
Intercourse between unmarried persons
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- knewPast awareness state
- begatFathered, in old usage
- sinViolation of divine law
flesh · temptation · transgression · iniquity · impurity · lust · concupiscence · harlotry
Emotional closeness between people
- relationsConnections or dealings
- couplingJoint between systems
- unionJoining into one
- consummationFinal completion or achievement
knowing · bedding · deflowering · cohabitation · dalliance · tryst · liaison · rendezvous
Sex crime defined by age
- age of consentMinimum years for lawful agreement
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- sexual assaultForced sexual contact crime
- criminal offenseUnlawful act prosecutable by state
felony · indictment · prosecution · defendant · testimony · evidence · verdict · guilty
coitus
Sexual joining of bodies
- intercourseCommunication or sexual connection
- copulationSexual joining of bodies
- penetrationEntry into something
consummation · procreation · conception · reproduction · genitalia · ejaculation · virginity · defloration · sexual contact
fornication
Intercourse between unmarried persons
sin · flesh · temptation · transgression · iniquity · impurity · lust · concupiscence · harlotry · defilement
intimacy
Emotional closeness between people
consummation · knowing · bedding · deflowering · cohabitation · dalliance · tryst · liaison · rendezvous · assignation
statutory rape
Sex crime defined by age
- age of consentMinimum years for lawful agreement
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- sexual assaultForced sexual contact crime
criminal offense · felony · indictment · prosecution · defendant · testimony · evidence · verdict · guilty · acquittal
- knowledgebook learning, encyclopedia, reference book, dictionary, thesaurus
- sexualitysexual orientation, sexual behavior, erotica, sexual identity, bisexual
- Biblical Sexualityadultery, fornication, virginity, lust, prostitution
- Literary Eroticaerotica, erotic fiction, romance novels, adult romance, steamy romance
- innuendoinnuendo, sexual innuendo, double entendre, double meaning, implied meaning
- intimacykiss, hug, embrace, closeness, snuggling
carnal knowledgeplatonic love
Emotional bond sans desire
emotional intimacy · spiritual union · agape · spiritual connection · philia
carnal knowledgespiritual knowledge
Awareness of transcendent truths
transcendence · enlightenment · gnosis · mystical union · sacred knowledge
knowledge, carnal, incarnate, incarnation, carnation, reincarnation, carnality, reincarnate, carnally