multilinealityn.
/ˌmʌltɪˌlɪnɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌməltiˌlɪniˈælədi/; see also multi- comb. form. Cultural Anthropology.
Multilineal kinship.
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1956 R. Firth Two Stud. Kinship in London 17 It is in this way that the conversion of bilateralism into multilineality occurs.
1999 Current Anthropol. 40 329/2 I see her critical points about multilineality, synchronic diversity of productive forms, and the presumed inevitability of intensification itself as particularly germane.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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