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n. The practice or condition of having a single sexual partner during a period of time.

n. The practice or condition of being married to only one person at a time.

n. The practice of marrying only once in a lifetime.

n. Zoology The condition of having only one mate during a breeding season or during the breeding life of a pair.

n. A form of sexual bonding involving a permanent pair bond between two beings.

n. Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.

n. State of being paired with a single mate.

n. The practice of marrying only once, or the principle which upholds that practice; the principle that forbids remarriage after the death of a former husband or wife: opposed to digamy. See bigamy, 2.

n. The condition of being married to only one person at one time: opposed to bigamy or polygamy. See bigamy, 1.

n. In zoology, the habit of having only one mate; the habit of living in pairs; the paired state.

n. having only one spouse at a time

"Moral discussions of living together before marriage, and even the word monogamy itself, sound quaint nowadays, relics of a distant past."

polygamy    deuterogamy   

spousal relationship    union    matrimony    marriage    wedlock   

double monogamy   

monogyny    serial monogamy   

concubinage    polygyny    polygamy    polygamist    polyandry    infanticide    celibacy    promiscuity    monotheism    vegetarianism