exogamy

English

Etymology

From exo- +‎ -gamy. The term was coined by John Ferguson McLennan in his Studies in Ancient History, page 25.

Noun

exogamy (countable and uncountable, plural exogamies)

1. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law
2. (biology) the fusion of two unrelated gametes

Synonyms

• (marriage): See also Thesaurus:intermarriage

Antonyms

• (marriage): endogamy; see also Thesaurus:intermarriage

Related terms

• exogamous

Translations

marriage

• Armenian: էկզոգամիա (hy) (ēkzogamia), տարամուսնություն (hy) (taramusnutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: екзогамия (bg) f (ekzogamija)
• Czech: exogamie
• Finnish: eksogamia (fi)
• German: Exogamie (de) f
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• Greek: εξωγαμία (el) f (exogamía)
• Persian: برون‌همسری
• Polish: egzogamia f
• Romanian: exogamie (ro) f
• Russian: экзога́мия (ru) f (ekzogámija)

See also

• intermarriage