Antonyms of noun assortative_mating

1 sense of assortative mating

Sense 1
assortative mating -- (mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating)
       Antonym of disassortative mating (Sense 1)
      => disassortative mating -- (mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun assortative_mating

1 sense of assortative mating

Sense 1
assortative mating -- (mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating)
       => coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union -- (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring")

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