outmarriage
English edit
Etymology edit
out- + marriage; compare exogamy.
Noun edit
outmarriage (countable and uncountable, plural outmarriages)
- Marrying outside one’s own ethnic, religious, or social group.
- 2000, Wayne Patterson, The Ilse: First-generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaiʻi, 1903-1973[1]:
- While most of the outmarriages in the Korean community involving whites were between Korean females and Caucasian males, the gender roles were occasionally reversed.
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:intermarriage
Antonyms edit
- inmarriage
- See also Thesaurus:intermarriage