homogamy
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Is homogamy a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (botany) Fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant.uncountable
2. (botany) The quality of being homogamous.uncountable
3. (biology) Breeding between similar individuals.Synonyms: inbreedingAntonyms: heterogamyuncountable
4. (sociology) Marriage or other union between similar people, or people of the same sex.Examples: "Surgeons no longer pursue nurses as they did when the former were most likely men and the latter women; now they go for anaesthetists or other surgeons. In one sense homogamy is desirable, because it means women are less dependent on status-asymmetric marriages; in another, it’s dismal because it constitutes a form of social closure […]"Synonyms: exogamy, extramarriage, heterogamy, intermarriage, mixed marriage, outmarriageAntonyms: heterogamy, endogamy, homogamy, inmarriage, intramarriageuncountable
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