Hypergamous vs Polygamous - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between hypergamous and polygamous

is that hypergamous is of or pertaining to hypergamy while polygamous is of, relating to, or practicing polygamy.

hypergamous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to hypergamy.

* 1999 , Susan Bayly, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age , Cambridge University Press (2001), ISBN 9780521264341, page 124:

This is, in fact, an issue on which modern anthropologists have been divided, particularly among those north Indians who are held to practise hypergamous 'upward' marriage.

* 2005 , David P. Barash & Nanelle R. Barash, Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature , Dell (2008), ISBN 9780440241843, page 67:

Readers can't help siding with Jane's heroines, so sympathetically portrayed in their efforts to get the right man, whereas Becky Sharp may well represent male distrust of scheming hypergamous females.

* 2011 , Vanessa L. Fong, Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World , Stanford University Press (2011), ISBN 9780804772662, page 128:

Some Chinese citizens even praised male Chinese citizens they knew for having enough status, wealth, charm, and good looks to attract non-Chinese women, who were presumed to desire the same hypergamous relationships that Chinese women were presumed to desire.

Anagrams

polygamous

English

Adjective

(-)

Of, relating to, or practicing polygamy.

* 2001 , Kathryn Daynes, More Wives Than One , p 177

That Mormon community no longer practises polygamous relationships.