Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🚫 Sex with relatives 🤝 Too close group
incestuous

incestuous

12 9.1
Having sexual relations with close family members
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈsɛstʃuəs/
  • Offensive
: incestuoso
  • The theme of the novel is incestuous love, and Morooka connects the novel to Freud's recent work.
  • incestuous relationship
  • incestuous desire
  • incestuous marriage

Then there's Catherine Cornelius, his half sister, the object of his his incestuous desire, who he's in love with his sister.

Examples

  • When my mother told me about the incestuous relationship with her father, I cried.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Free from social restraint, the couple form an incestuous union.

    Academic text (1992)

  • In fact, it is a prelude to a tale of incestuous marriage between King Helgi and his daughter.

    Academic text (1999)

  • While the Royal Court was present at Winterfell, the young son of Eddard, Bran Stark, witnessed the incestuous relationship between Cersei and Jamie.

  • He faced severe consequences for engaging in an incestuous relationship with his sister.

  • The novel explores the complexities and challenges of an incestuous relationship between family members.

  • Their incestuous relationship was hidden from public view due to societal stigma and legal repercussions.

Surface Forms

incestuous positive

Morphology

incestuous = incest (transparent) = incest + uous

Formed directly from the noun 'incest' with the adjectival suffix '-uous', giving the expected meaning 'relating to incest'.

Etymology

Incestuous comes from Latin parts in- 'not' and castus 'chaste', the same root as the English word chaste. So it originally meant 'not chaste' and today it describes sexual relations between close family members.