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  • adjective Not monogamous.

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non- +‎ monogamous

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Examples

  • “Sweethearting” and “taking up” were usually nonmonogamous relationships, which according to historian Anthony Kaye, were “a temporary tie that entailed more prerogatives than obligations and many new feelings and pleasures.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • We can also see this in the contrapositive: having more than one sexual partner is by definition nonmonogamous.

    s-e-x. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2010

  • The critters that light up near their lifemates are monogamous, but the ones who light up during family-type activities are nonmonogamous.

    poly people « Love | Peace | Ohana 2008

  • Human behavior of the nonmonogamous type is all around me here.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • Human behavior of the nonmonogamous type is all around me here.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • Human behavior of the nonmonogamous type is all around me here.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • Human behavior of the nonmonogamous type is all around me here.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • She said you were aggressively nonmonogamous, that you treated your friends like they were the salt of the earth but your girlfriends like they were one step away from turning on you, and that if I wanted a lover who could actually process things all the way through, you were not that woman. "....."

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES -- NO U-HAULS, JUST BORROW A FRIEND'S TRUCK Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Also, most people are also physically nonmonogamous.

    i believe in open relationships « Love | Peace | Ohana 2007

  • The way I see it, is that most people are already emotionally nonmonogamous.

    i believe in open relationships « Love | Peace | Ohana 2007

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