Incest

Quick meaning: Incest is a noun meaning Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.

Meaning

Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.

More Meanings

1. (loosely) Romantic relationships between close relatives, also widely taboo.
2. (ambitransitive) To engage in incestuous sexual activities.

Example Sentences

I do not want anyone to feel that my lesbianism is a result of being incested.

He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.

Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.

Her erotic transference ultimately devolved into a revelation that she had been consistently incested by her brother

Word Forms

• incests
• incesting
• incested

Synonyms for incest

Depending on context, synonyms include inbreeding.

Antonyms for incest

Common opposites include outbreeding.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include granddaughter, abuse, intermarriage, consanguinity, interbreeding, inbreeding.

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