NOUN | state | exogamy, intermarriage | marriage to a person belonging to a tribe / tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law |
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Meaning | marriage to a person belonging to a tribe / tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law. | |
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Synonym | intermarriage | |
Broader | marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock | The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined / joined for life (or until divorce) |
Opposite | endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage | marriage within one's own tribe / tribe or group as required by custom or law |
Spanish | exogamia | |
Catalan | exogàmia | |
Adjectives | exogamous, exogamic | pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe |
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