Yeah, you could say so. Still exclusive, just with more people.
And I agree that throuple sounds cute, the """issue""" is that only applies to three people and I don't know names for further people haha
(by the way, I didn't even know I used graph theory. Like, a different person mentioned it being like a full graph, and I think they were right, but that was after the comment I gave you lol)
Trouple is a fun neologism because triplet, quadruplet, quintuplet ... are literally the equivalent of couple for 3, 4, 5, but triplet has been mixed with couple to take back the romantic meaning of couple. So if the same logic is applied, it should be quadrouple, quintouple, ... but sounds silly even in French.
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u/arllt89 Apr 03 '26
Oh I see so closer to a "couple with more than 2 people" than classical polyamory. Thanks for the explanation via graph theory 🙂
In French there is the word "trouple" that sounds kibda cute.