connubiality

a union representing a special kind of social and legal partnership between two people the sudden craze for connubiality had claimed its latest victim: a bachelor who swore that he'd never marry Synonyms conjugality, marriage, match, matrimony, wedlockRelated Words monogamy; bigamy, polyandry, polygamy, polygyny; intermarriage, miscegenation, mixed marriage, remarriage; cohabitation, common-law marriage; civil union, domestic partnership; attachment, commitment, relationship; betrothal, engagement, espousal, hand, pledge, promise, proposal, trothNear Antonyms annulment, divorce, separation