assortative mating

1. 1.

   mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating

   Antonymsdisassortative mating

   Broadercoupling

Questions about assortative mating

What does assortative mating mean?

assortative mating means "mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating".

What is the opposite of assortative mating?

The recorded antonyms are disassortative mating.

Is assortative mating a common word?

assortative mating is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.