Homogamy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Homogamy is a noun meaning (botany) Fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant.
Meaning
(botany) Fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant.
More Meanings
- (botany) The quality of being homogamous.
- (biology) Breeding between similar individuals.
- (sociology) Marriage or other union between similar people, or people of the same sex.
Example Sentences
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 for homogamy
Depending on context, synonyms include inbreeding, exogamy, extramarriage, heterogamy, intermarriage, outmarriage.
Antonyms for homogamy
Common opposites include heterogamy, exogamy, extramarriage, intermarriage, outmarriage.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include orthogamy, autogamy, self pollination, polygamy, heterogony, hydrogamy.
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