Agamy
/ˈæɡ.ə.mi/noun
The condition of being unmarried or not in a marital union; in biology, reproduction without sexual union.
Did you know?Agamy comes from Greek a- (“not”) + gamos (“marriage”), and that same gamos root also lives inside monogamy and polygamy — the language of union is older than the word for refusing it.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greek
Greek
a- + gamos
“not + marriage, union, or wedding”
Late Greek
Greek
agamos
“unmarried, without a spouse”
19th Century
English
agamy
“absence of marriage; later, reproduction without sexual union”
Modern English
English
agamy
“the state or condition of being unmarried; in biology, reproduction without sexual union”