exogamy
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law
- (countable, uncountable) the fusion of two unrelated gametes
Opposite of
endogamy, homogamy, inmarriage, intramarriage
Synonyms
Translations
exogamie
exogamia
esogamia
Exogamie
exogàmia
egzogami
زواج الأباعد
exogamiaEtymology
From exo- + -gamy. Coined by British lawyer and ethnologist John Ferguson McLennan in his Studies in Ancient History, page 25.
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