Word.ws English Dictionary

omnigamy

omnigamy noun: a social system in which each man of a community is married to all the women and each woman is married to all the men.

Noun

omnigamy (uncountable)

  1. A social system in which each man of a community is married to all the women and each woman is married to all the men.
    • Some of these are poly intimacy, polyamory, polygamy, omnigamy, multimate, multiple adult relationship, combo, cellular family, expanded family, nonexclusive relationship, intimate friendship and inclusive relationship.1992, Deborah M. Anapol, Love without limits, page 4

Origin of omnigamy

From omni- + -gamy.

Questions about omnigamy

What does omnigamy mean?
Omnigamy means a social system in which each man of a community is married to all the women and each woman is married to all the men.
What part of speech is omnigamy?
Omnigamy is a noun.

Words near omnigamy in the dictionary

  1. omniformal
  2. omniformity
  3. omnifutuent
  4. omnify
  5. omnifying
  6. omnigamy
  7. omnigatherum
  8. omnigatherums
  9. omnigender
  10. omnigendered
  11. omnigeneity

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: omnigamy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “omnigamy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/omnigamy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.