homogamy
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homogamy (uncountable)
- (botany) Fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant.
- (biology) Breeding between similar individuals.
- Synonym: inbreeding
- Antonym: heterogamy
- (sociology) Marriage or other union between similar people, or people of the same sex.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intermarriage
- Antonyms: heterogamy; see also Thesaurus:intermarriage
- 2018 December 21, Stuart Jeffries, “Germany’s Hidden Crisis by Oliver Nachtwey review – social decline in the heart of Europe”, in The Guardian[1]:
- 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 […]