Dictionary

postcoital en · ADJ

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.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Occurring after, or as a consequence of, sex.
   • 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. 2015 February 26, Sophie Gilbert, “Soggy Bottoms and 'Sex Box': The Saucy State of TV's British Imports”, in The Atlantic:
   • 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. 2003, William Simon, Postmodern Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 82:

Forms

Antonyms

precoital

Deriveds

postcoital test · postcoital dysphoria · postcoital tristesse · postcoitally

Relateds

afterglow

Translations (5)

it postcoitale (following sexual intercourse) · yi לאַחר־המעשׂה (following sexual intercourse) · fr postcoïtal (following sexual intercourse) · fi yhdynnän jälkeinen (following sexual intercourse) · yi נאָכן סעקס (following sexual intercourse)