syndyasmian

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syndyasmian (not comparable)

Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
Pertaining to a family structure in which couples pair off (sometimes only temporarily for the rearing of children), but do not practice exclusive cohabitation, instead living with others in a communal household.
- 1906, Philip Rappaport, Looking Forward, page 33:
  Two forms of the family had appeared before the syndiasmian, and created two great systems of consanguinity, or rather two distinct forms of the same system, but this third family neither produced a new system nor sensibly modified the old. The syndiasmian family continued for an unknown period of time enveloped in a system of consanguinity, false, in the main, to existing relationships, and which it had no power to break. This was reserved for monogamy, the coming power, able to dissolve the fabric.
- 2010, Gabriel Tarde, Terry N. Clark, Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence, page 128:
  We should note that matriarchy is easily explained as the almost inevitable successor of syndiasmian marriage or, more generally, of polyandry.
- 2020, George Elliott Howard, A History of Matrimonial Institutions: Volume 1, page 51:
  Under these influences arose the Syndiasmian, or third general type of the family, based upon the marriage of single pairs, often temporary and without exclusive cohabitation.