conjugality
- noun
- /kənˈdʒuːɡəlɪti/
- Formal
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conyugalidad
- Long-lasting conjugality is often seen as a key factor in a happy marriage.
- conjugality in family
- development of conjugality
- rise of conjugality
Examples
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Focusing on widows' motivations to remain single or to remarry in the contemporary context helps us understand the restructuring of social relations between members of coresidential kin groups and the changing nature of conjugality.
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However, the most important part of Goode's thesis is his interpretation of the worldwide trend toward the centrality of conjugality in family life, rather than the dualism of extended families versus nuclear families.
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Thus, the notion of conjugality is promoted and developed even among the senior generations.
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Next, this article explores how the current practice of family division promotes the development of conjugality.
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Finally, I briefly discuss the sociocultural factors that have contributed to the rise of conjugality.
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As a result, conjugality has taken a central place in family relations, and family life in stem families shows a tendency toward democratization.
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Are the villagers who have chosen to live in stem families less enthusiastic about conjugality than their counterparts in nuclear families?
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Ideals of romance, conjugality, and companionship are shaping Igbo constructions of marriage.
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All this supports a national trend in favor of conjugality as discussed in early studies (see Parish and Whyte 1978; Salaff 1973).
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However, it is also a capitulation to the changing conception of what a marriage should be; i.e., the increasing acceptance of conjugality, intimacy, and love as the bases for marriage.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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2.4
A close joining of two things that work well together
36
6.4
Being married to each other
17
4.1
The state of being married to another person
1
3.5
A connection between two people who are married
A legal relationship between two people who are married
Being married and having the duties of a husband or wife
How Intimate
122
4.2
- Formal
751
1.0
65
2.9
114
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Conjugality comes from Latin parts con- and jugum, meaning 'together' and 'yoke'. So, picture marriage as two people joined under one 'yoke', and that image explains why conjugality means the married relationship and the close bond between partners.