open marriage

1. 1.

   a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other

   Broadermarriage

Questions about open marriage

What does open marriage mean?

open marriage means "a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other".

Is open marriage a common word?

open marriage 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.