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nuptiality

nuptiality

9.9
How often people marry in a group
  • noun
  • /ˌnʌpʃiˈælɪti/
  • Specialized
: nupcialidad
  • Studies show that increasing educational attainment often leads to lower nuptiality rates among young adults.

Examples

  • In 1990, under Russia's then-prevailing nuptiality patterns, marriage was almost universal, and the odds of eventually divorcing were about 40 percent.

    Academic text (2005)

  • At the end of the Great Depression, there was the familiar inverse relationship between education, nuptiality, and the number of children ever born.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The report analyzed the factors influencing nuptiality in different cultural groups across the country.

  • Researchers are investigating how economic stability affects nuptiality within urban populations.

Antonyms

singleness
1 3.7

Not being married or in a romantic relationship

Surface Forms

nuptiality singular
nuptialities plural

Morphology

nuptiality = nuptial (semi-transparent) = nuptial + ity

A standard nominalization from the adjective 'nuptial' using '-ity' that yields an abstract noun meaning the state or quality related to marriage.

Etymology

Nuptiality comes from the Latin word nuptia, meaning 'marriage', and it shares the same root as the English words nuptial and nuptials. The Latin root comes from nubere, a verb meaning 'to cover', like a bride's veil, so the word stayed tied to marriage — that is why nuptiality means how often people marry or the state of being married.