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Taboo vs Banned - What's the difference?

taboo | banned |

As adjectives the difference between taboo and banned

is that taboo is excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention while banned is forbidden; not allowed.

As verbs the difference between taboo and banned

is that taboo is to mark as taboo while banned is (ban).

As a noun taboo

is an inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.

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

    *

    banned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ban)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Forbidden; not allowed.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.}}