# incest
## English
### Etymology

From Latin incestus. Displaced native Old English mǣġhǣmed (literally “relative-sex”). Doublet of inchaste.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪnsɛst/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪnsɛst

### Noun

incest (usually uncountable, plural incests)
* Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo; in many jurisdictions, close relatives are not allowed to marry, and incest is a crime.
    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.

#### Synonyms

* inbreeding

#### Antonyms

* outbreeding

#### Hyponyms

* auntcest
* cousincest
* fauxcest
* sibcest
* twincest

#### Derived terms

* anti-incest
* cousincest
* fauxcest
* Folgercest
* incested
* incester
* incestic
* incesting
* incestism
* incestophile
* incestophilia
* incestophobe
* incestophobia
* incestophobic
* incestual
* incestualist
* incestuality
* incestualize
* incestually
* incestuous
* incestuously
* incestuousness
* pro-incest
* selfcest
* sibcest
* step-incest
* twincest
* Waycest
* wincest

#### Related terms

* incestuous
* spiritual incest

#### Translations

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### Verb

incest (third-person singular simple present incests, present participle incesting, simple past and past participle incested)
* (transitive, intransitive) To engage in incestuous sexual intercourse.
** 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) […]

### See also

* sexual intercourse
* inbreeder
* inbred
* sisterfucker
* motherfucker
* brotherfucker

### Further reading

* incest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “incest”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* “incest, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “incest”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “incest”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “incest” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

### Anagrams

* ceints, insect, nicest, scient

## Dutch
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin incestus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪn.sɛst/, (dated) /ɪnˈsɛst/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: in‧cest

### Noun

incest m (uncountable)
* incest
    Synonyms: bloedschande, bloedschending, bloedschennis

#### Derived terms

* incestdrama
* incesttheorie
* incestueus

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French inceste, from Latin incestus.

### Noun

incest n (plural incesturi)
* incest

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incestus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǐnt͡sest/
* Hyphenation: in‧cest

### Noun

ìncest m (Cyrillic spelling ѝнцест)
* incest

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

incest c
* incest
    Synonym: (dated) blodskam

#### Related terms

* incestuös (“incestuous”)

### References

* incest in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* incest in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* incest in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)