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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesスウィンギング
Pronunciation / Transliteration: suwingingu
"スウィンギングは合意の上で行われる夫婦間のパートナー交換です。"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A practice in which two or more married couples temporarily exchange partners for sexual relations, typically by mutual agreement.
"The documentary explored the subculture of wife-swapping in suburban communities during the 1970s." - 2
Informally, any consensual arrangement where partners within established relationships are shared or exchanged among a closed group.
"Modern terminology often prefers words like swinging over the older phrase wife-swapping."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term combines the Old English noun 'wīf' (woman, wife) with the Middle English verb 'swapen' (to strike, exchange), which developed its modern sense of trading or bartering around the 16th century. The compound phrase gained significant cultural currency in mid-20th-century Western sociology and media, specifically referencing consensual partner-exchanging among married couples during the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s.
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échangisme
Transliteration: /e.ʃɑ̃.ʒism/
"L'échangisme est une pratique consentie entre couples."
Einitausch
Transliteration: /ˈaɪn.ɪˌtaʊ̯ʃ/
"In den 1970er Jahren wurde oft über Partnertausch diskutiert."
scambio di coppie
Transliteration: /ˈskambjo di ˈkɔp.pje/
"Lo scambio di coppie è un fenomeno studiato dalla sociologia."
intercambio de parejas
Transliteration: /in.teɾˈkam.bio ðe paˈɾe.xas/
"El intercambio de parejas es una forma de relaciones consensuadas."
troca de casais
Transliteration: /ˈtɾɔ.kɐ dʒi kaˈzajs/
"A troca de casais ganhou visibilidade com o movimento hippie."
पार्टनर अदला-बदली
Transliteration: partner adla-badli
"आधुनिक समाजशास्त्र में पार्टनर अदला-बदली पर चर्चा होती है।"
换妻
Transliteration: huàn qī
"换妻社交在某些subculture中存在。"
스핑
Transliteration: seupewing
Script: 부부 교환
"부부 교환은 일부 사회에서 논쟁적인 주제입니다."
スウィンギング
Transliteration: suwingingu
"スウィンギングは合意の上で行われる夫婦間のパートナー交換です。"
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