open marriage
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.81 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A marital relationship in which both partners mutually agree that each is free to have sexual relationships with other people as they choose.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""Most people have been married more than once, and adultery is universally tolerated. Open marriage would simply legitimize what we already live.""
- ""Marriage is only possible for me if it's an open marriage"."
- "Both said they had an open marriage, having sexual relations with others."
- "While you can’t tell where poetic licence has been applied, its narrative arc traces accepting an open marriage along certain guidelines (“He had an arrangement, be discreet and don’t be blatant,” Allen sings on Madeline, “there had to be payment, it had to be with strangers”) only for the relationship to explode when it transpires that the husband isn’t abiding by the rules."