exogamous
- adjective
- /ɛkˈsɒɡəməs/
- Specialized
:
exogámico
- Relocation accelerated the shift from endogamous to exogamous marriages and radically altered descent and inheritance practices to women's disadvantage.
- exogamous marriage
- exogamous practices
Examples
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Among village clans, a small proportion (13.6 percent) of marriages is exogamous; that is, when members marry non-consanguines and non-affines from outside the village.
Academic text (1994) -
Analysis of the marriage register discloses the proportion of endogamous and exogamous marriages in the parish.
Academic text (1993) -
Marriage is exogamous in this community.
Academic text (1990) -
Whatever the bands were, they appear to have been exogamous.
Academic text (1991) -
With exogamous patrilocal marriage, the daughters would have to be married to men of other villages.
Academic text (2000) -
Among the Crows, clans were matrilineal and exogamous.
Academic text (1991) -
Tchambuli society was based upon localized patricians, an exogamous moiety.
Academic text (2003) -
During the 1800s, Pare society was organized into exogamous, nonterritorial patriclans.
Academic text (1998) -
Within each locality are villages or clusters of hamlets generally consisting of extended patrilineal families or kindreds that are strictly exogamous.
Academic text (1990) -
In many indigenous communities, marriage is often exogamous, requiring individuals to find partners outside their clan.
Synonyms
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Born from parents who are not closely related to have more different genes
Requiring people to marry only outside their own group
Encouraging mating between animals or plants that are not closely related to make their genes more different
Antonyms
How Restrictive
Surface Forms
Morphology
exogamous = exogamy (semi-transparent) = exo + gam + ous
The term 'exogamous' is derived from 'exogamy', which is a specialized term not immediately clear to all learners.
Etymology
Exogamous comes from the parts exo- meaning 'outside' and -gamous meaning 'marriage', like in the words monogamy and polygamy. So, an exogamous group or species is one that marries or joins with people or mates 'outside' its own family or clan.