incest
noun /ˈɪnsest/
/ˈɪnsest/
[uncountable]- sexual activity between two people who are very closely related in a family, for example, a brother and sister, or a father and daughter
- incest between brother and sister
- taboos forbidding incest
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- brother-sister
- father-daughter
- etc.
- …
- commit
- forbid
- prohibit
- …
- survivor
- victim
- taboo
- …
- incest between
Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin incestus, incestum ‘unchastity, incest’, from in- ‘not’ + castus ‘chaste’.