polyfidelitous

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ fidelitous.

Adjective

polyfidelitous (not comparable)

1. Faithful within a polyamorous relationship.

   Although they were apart for several months, Haziq, Buford, and Noelani remained polyfidelitous as they were only interested in maintaining romantic relationships with other members of their throuple.

   • 2005, Kelsi Brown Corkran, “Exclusion and Expression in Marriage”, in The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, volume 6, number 1, page 61:

     This lack of interest in multi-party marriage among polyamorists is particularly interesting given the fact that, as mentioned above, there is often a legal marriage between at least two of the partners in a polyfidelitous group.

   • 2013, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli with Peter Haydon and Anne Hunter, “'These Are Our Children': Polyamorous Parenting”, in Abbie E. Goldberg, Katherine R. Allen, editors, LGBT-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice, New York City: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 117:

     Polyfamilies are also inclusive of both polyamorous families wherein various LGBT adults may seek external partners and polyfidelitous families wherein the LGBT adults agree to only be in sexual relationships with each other and not be open to relationships outside the group.

Related terms

• polyfidelity