outmarriage

English

Etymology

out- +‎ marriage; compare exogamy.

Noun

outmarriage (countable and uncountable, plural outmarriages)

  1. Marrying outside one’s own ethnic, religious, or social group.
    • 2000, Wayne Patterson, The Ilse: First-generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaiʻi, 1903-1973‎:
      While most of the outmarriages in the Korean community involving whites were between Korean females and Caucasian males, the gender roles were occasionally reversed.

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