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語源

Learned borrowing from Latin incestus. Displaced 古期英語 mǣġhǣmed (literally “relative-sex”). Doublet of inchaste.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɪn.sɛst/
• 韻: -ɪnsɛst
• ハイフネーション: in‧cest

名詞

incest (usually uncountable, plural incests)

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

   Synonym: inbreeding

   Antonym: outbreeding

   Hyponyms: auntcest, cousincest, fauxcest, sibcest, twincest

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

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:

     For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.

   • 2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire, page 225:

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

2. (loosely) Romantic relationships between close relatives, also widely taboo.

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動詞

incest (third-person singular simple present incests, present participle incesting, simple past and past participle incested)

1. (ambitransitive) To engage in incestuous sexual activities.
   • 1994, Kathryn Carter, Interpretive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication:

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

   • 2009, Antonino Ferro, The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept, page 206:

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

   • 2011, Marvin Mengeling, Crows, Pete Rose, UFOs: And Other Pretty Pieces, page 2:

     […] the most powerful of that bunch of immortal giants called Titans was Cronus, who “incested” with sister Rhea, who then birthed the Olympians (Zeus and his bunch) […]

参考

• sisterfucker
• motherfucker
• brotherfucker

Further reading

• “incest”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “incest, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “incest”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “incest”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “incest”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026
• “incest, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

アナグラム

• ceints, insect, nicest, scient