companionate
English
Adjective
companionate (comparative more companionate, superlative most companionate)
- (now historical) Designating a proposed type of marriage (or other partnership) in which the partners plan to have no children and take on no legal obligations to one another. [from 20th c.]
- Friendly, companionable. [from 20th c.]
- Pertaining to a (chiefly romantic) relationship that emphasises companionship and mutual respect. [from 20th c.]
- 2017, Esther Perel, The State of Affairs:
- Gradually it evolved from an economic enterprise to a companionate one—a free-choice engagement between two individuals, based not on duty and obligation but on love and affection.
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