: the amount by which ages are different Theres a 15-year age difference between her oldest and youngest children.

What type of dating is age difference?

Age-hypogamy in relationships Age-hypogamy defines a relationship where the woman is the older partner, the opposite of this being age-hypergamy. Marriage between partners of roughly similar age is known as age homogamy.

What means age gap?

noun. a difference in age between two people. Theres an age gap of ten years between me and my sister.

Is 4 years an age gap?

Four years and four months is the ideal age difference for a relationship – as long as the man is older than the woman, according to new research by Confused.com life insurance experts.

Is 5 years an age gap?

After analysing 3,000 people, it found that couples with a five-year age gap are 18 per cent more likely to split up than those of the same age. Interestingly, that figure rose to 39 per cent for couples with a 10-year age gap and a shocking 95 per cent for those with a 20-year age gao.