postcoital

British  

/ pəʊstˈkəʊɪtəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to the period after sexual intercourse

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Example Sentences

Take this postcoital moment from Ellis’s Less Than Zero, set among the sort of dead-eyed rich kids he grew up with in 1980s Los Angeles:

From The Guardian

There’s also a frisson and postcoital tenderness.

From The Guardian

Occasional moments of descriptive grace — “Having news from you is like opening a window” — are overshadowed by devastating details, such as a postcoital mention of one testicle left forever “bruised and shrunken” from a cattle prod.

From New York Times

Fermín demonstrates his martial arts moves to Cleo in a postcoital display of self-love.

From The Guardian

Post-sex feelings of sadness, clinically known as postcoital dysphoria, is a largely unexplained phenomenon, and the lack of research into the subject hasn’t helped bring us any closer to understanding why it happens.

From Salon