Definitions for incestuous
ɪnˈsɛs tʃu əsin·ces·tu·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incestuousadjective

   resembling incest as by excessive intimacy

2. incestuousadjective

   relating to or involving incest

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incestuousadjective

   Pertaining to or engaging in incest.

2. incestuousadjective

   Characterized by mutual relationships that are intimate and exclusive to the detriment of outsiders.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Incestuousadjective

   Guilty of incest; guilty of unnatural cohabitation.

   Etymology: incestueux, French.

   Hide me, thou bloody hand,
   Thou perjure, thou simular of virtue,
   That art incestuous. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   We may easily guess with what impatience the world would have heard an incestuous Herod discoursing of chastity. South.

   Ere you reach to this incestuous love,
   You must divine and human rights remove. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incestuous

   Incest ( IN-sest) is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives. This typically includes sexual activity between people in consanguinity (blood relations), and sometimes those related by affinity (marriage or stepfamily), adoption, or lineage. It is strictly forbidden and considered immoral in most societies, and can lead to an increased risk of genetic disorders in children. The incest taboo is one of the most widespread of all cultural taboos, both in present and in past societies. Most modern societies have laws regarding incest or social restrictions on closely consanguineous marriages. In societies where it is illegal, consensual adult incest is seen by some as a victimless crime. Some cultures extend the incest taboo to relatives with no consanguinity such as milk-siblings, step-siblings, and adoptive siblings, albeit sometimes with less intensity. Third-degree relatives (such as half-aunt, half-nephew, first cousin) on average have 12.5% common genetic heritage, and sexual relations between them are viewed differently in various cultures, from being discouraged to being socially acceptable. Children of incestuous relationships have been regarded as illegitimate, and are still so regarded in some societies today. In most cases, the parents did not have the option to marry to remove that status, as incestuous marriages were, and are, normally also prohibited. A common justification for prohibiting incest is avoiding inbreeding: a collection of genetic disorders suffered by the children of parents with a close genetic relationship. Such children are at greater risk of congenital disorders, death and developmental and physical disability, and that risk is proportional to their parents' coefficient of relationship—a measure of how closely the parents are related genetically. However, cultural anthropologists have noted that inbreeding avoidance cannot form the sole basis for the incest taboo because the boundaries of the incest prohibition vary widely between cultures and not necessarily in ways that maximize the avoidance of inbreeding.In some societies, such as those of Ancient Egypt, brother–sister, father–daughter, mother–son, cousin–cousin, aunt–nephew, uncle–niece and other combinations of relations within a royal family were married as a means of perpetuating the royal lineage. Some societies have different views about what constitutes illegal or immoral incest. For example, in Samoa, marriage between a brother and an older sister was allowed, while marriage between a brother and a younger sister was declared as unethical. However sexual relations with a first-degree relative (meaning a parent, sibling or child) are almost universally forbidden.

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1. incestuous

   Incestuous refers to sexual activity or marriage between individuals who are closely related by blood or ancestry, which is considered a cultural taboo or is illegal in many societies. It can also refer metaphorically to relationships or activities that are excessively introverted or self-involved within a closed group.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of incestuous in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of incestuous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of incestuous in a Sentence

1. Richard Wolff:

   The NBER's incestuous, fundamental issues that ought to be part of the conversation in our economic system are excluded as if they don't exist.

2. John Milton:

   ... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.

3. Associated Press:

   Every caricature thrust upon the national press — that we are culturally elitist, professionally incestuous, socioeconomically detached and ideologically biased — is confirmed by this trainwreck of an event. Journalists, the joke’s on us. The WHCD is broken. Fix The WHCD or end The WHCD.

4. William S. Burroughs:

   I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

5. Rolling Stone:

   If it all seems too incestuous to be true, it was hardly unusual within the culture that followed Zucker wherever he went. For all his many journalistic wins, a brazen disregard for workplace ethics seemed to envelop his newsrooms — a function, perhaps, of his early successes and the privileges he enjoyed along the way.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=incestuous
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Incestuous
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=incestuous
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incestuous
5. ^ ChatGPT
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