Polyamory is an approach to relationships, or simply a belief or value or personality type, wherein you feel that one person can be in love with multiple different people at the same time, or have romantic feelings for someone new without diminishing the romantic feelings they have for established partners or anyone else.
Polyamory is often talked about as being distinct from something like "swinging" - swingers being people who may be in committed, loving relationships with one partner, but who openly engage in purely physical relationships with other partners - because polyamorous couples and individuals don't limit their other relationships to the purely physical. Actually, they often prefer not to.
It's entirely possible that polyamorous people may wish to engage in polygamy... but... if they're not marrying multiple people at the same time then they can be polyamorous without being polygamists.
Polyamory is an approach to relationships, or simply a belief or value or personality type, wherein you feel that one person can be in love with multiple different people at the same time, or have romantic feelings for someone new without diminishing the romantic feelings they have for established partners or anyone else.
Polyamory is often talked about as being distinct from something like "swinging" - swingers being people who may be in committed, loving relationships with one partner, but who openly engage in purely physical relationships with other partners - because polyamorous couples and individuals don't limit their other relationships to the purely physical. Actually, they often prefer not to.
It's entirely possible that polyamorous people may wish to engage in polygamy... but... if they're not marrying multiple people at the same time then they can be polyamorous without being polygamists.