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Cohabitation

/koʊhæbɪˈteɪʃən/

An emotional and physical intimate relationship which includes a common living place and which exists without legal or religious sanction.

📖 Definitions of "Cohabitation"

noun

1
An emotional and physical intimate relationship which includes a common living place and which exists without legal or religious sanction.
2
The act of living together.
3
A place where two or more individuals reside together.
4
The act of two species living together in the same habitat.

1 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
living togethernoun	living together (as spouses)

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
living togethernoun	living together (as spouses)
concubinagenoun	The state of cohabiting or living together as man and woman while not married.
intimacynoun	(uncountable, countable) Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, often but not necessarily involving sexuality.
common-law	Relating to common-law marriage.
harmonynoun	Agreement or accord.
co-locationnoun	An instance of co-locating.
livingnoun	(uncountable) The state of being alive.
coexistencenoun	The state of two or more things existing together, usually in a temporal or spatial sense, with or without mutual interaction.
cohabnoun	(colloquial) One who cohabits, or lives with another as if married.
cohabiteenoun	A person who cohabits with another
unmarriagenoun	(of a person) The condition of staying not married.
cohabiternoun	One who cohabits; a cohabitant.
cohabitornoun	One who cohabits.
cohabitatornoun	One who cohabits.
coresident	Living together.
marriage litenoun	(US, informal) cohabitation, civil union
concubinacynoun	(obsolete) The practice of concubinage.
live-togethernoun	(usually in the plural) A person who lives with their partner, though they are not married.
tallynoun	(by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
live-in boyfriend	—