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monogamy

/muh-nog-uh-mee/US // məˈnɒg ə mi //UK // (mɒˈnɒɡəmɪ) //

一夫一妻制,一夫一妻,一妻制,一夫多妻制

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : marriage with only one person at a time.Compare bigamy, polygamy.
    • : Zoology. the practice of having only one mate.
    • : the practice of marrying only once during life.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as invirtuousness

Examples

  • Howard University College of Medicine anatomy professor Rui Diogo leads a virtual talk on topics such as monogamy, polygamy, polyamory, homosexuality and more, as well as trace how our wrong ideas about sex came into being.

  • He talks candidly about the saga, non-monogamy, assisted suicide, and why he is ‘bored’ of the gay actor debate.

  • As Davies tells it, monogamy did not have much of a grip on the upper levels of public life.

  • What if gay marriage really will change the institution of marriage, shifting conceptions around monogamy and intimacy?

  • If you think about it, actual monogamy has never been the Western norm.

  • He might have fallen off the monogamy wagon a couple of times after that, but I have to tell you, not very much.

  • If we cannot justify monogamy by the facts of life, we shall declare ourselves for polygamy.

  • My defense of monogamy is based upon the fact that I have never known any happy or successful "free lovers."

  • I hope that none of my readers understands by "monogamy" any such system of spiritual strangulation.

  • The third reason is that monogamy is economical of human time and thought.

  • Well, then I am surprised youve never noticed that such animals live in monogamy.