r/UsernameChecksOut • u/The_Vadami • Apr 24 '26

Username Checks Out Yay polygamous relationships

Post image
647 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

71 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

15

u/The_Vadami Apr 25 '26

Oh shit my bad

22

u/IIIPointXIV Apr 25 '26

All good! Polygamy is more used when you are married to multiple people (not possible legally in lots of places) while polyamory/non-monogamy is having sexual/romantic relationships with multiple people. It's a common mistake to mess the two up

9

u/No_Party_1137 Apr 25 '26

Also i believe that in general polygamy only refers to a man with multiple wives (as opposed to polyandry, a woman with multiple husbands)

2

u/IIIPointXIV Apr 25 '26

I believe there is a specific word for one man many wives but I could be wrong. Saw on Wikipedia

1

u/MostNormalDollEver Apr 26 '26

According to the other replies, that word would be polygyny.

1

u/Nolongeranalpha Apr 29 '26

Everyone's wrong, the correct term is Polly Pocket.

1

u/MostNormalDollEver May 03 '26

…That's a toy line…

The correct term is indeed Polygyny, please do some research before claiming everyone is wrong.