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Charades vs Taboo - What's the difference?

charades | taboo |

As nouns the difference between charades and taboo

is that charades is plural of charadeCategory:English plurals while taboo is an inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.

As an adjective taboo is

excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

As a verb taboo is

to mark as taboo.

charades

English

(wikipedia charades)

Noun

(head)
  • English plurals
  • (in the plural) A game in which participants act out a word or phrase without talking for others to guess.
  • * 1909 , Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party

    • Anagrams

    * English pluralia tantum

    taboo

    English

    (wikipedia taboo)

    Alternative forms

    * tabu

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
  • *
  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 213:
    • The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus .
  • (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
    • Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
  • Culturally forbidden.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark as taboo.
  • To ban.
  • To avoid.

    • Anagrams

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