endogamy UK /ɛnˈdɒ.ɡə.mi/US /ɛnˈdɑ.ɡə.mi/ noun2 •The practice of marrying or requiring to marry within one's own ethnic, religious, or social group.In the Suppliant Maidens the heroines seem to protest against endogamy, which prohibits marriage except between persons of the same blood or stock. — 1924 •The fusion of two related gametes. formsendogamies