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Definition of Exogamous
1. Adjective. Characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related.
2. Adjective. Pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe.
Category relationships: Anthropology
Also: Outbred
Derivative terms: Exogamy, Exogamy
Antonyms: Endogamous
Definition of Exogamous
1. a. Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.
Definition of Exogamous
1. Adjective. (biology marriage) Of or relating to exogamy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exogamous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exogamous
Literary usage of Exogamous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1906)
"Endogamous or exogamous restrictions upon maternal or paternal uncle-niece or
aunt-nephew or cousin-marriage may exist irrespective of other endogamous or ..."
2. Readings in Descriptive and Historical Sociology by Franklin Henry Giddings (1906)
"An exogamous group is one in which men, by sacred custom, are forbidden to marry
... The family group is almost everywhere exogamous, although endogamous ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"But as " it is quite possible that the exogamous groups were deliberately introduced
to regulate marital relations," and as they could only do so by ..."
4. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1904)
"The elders, therefore, decreed that totems should be exogamous. ... Whence,
moreover, and why, came the exogamous totem kins within the " classes "? ..."
5. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"In many tribes each of these classes is composed of two exogamous sections, and
each section may again be divided into two exogamous subsections ; so that ..."
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