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Forbidding vs Taboo - What's the difference?

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Forbidding is a related term of taboo.


As adjectives the difference between forbidding and taboo

is that forbidding is highly unpleasant or disagreeable while taboo is excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

As verbs the difference between forbidding and taboo

is that forbidding is while taboo is to mark as taboo.

As nouns the difference between forbidding and taboo

is that forbidding is the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition while taboo is an inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.

forbidding

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • highly unpleasant or disagreeable
  • threatening or menacing

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
  • * William Shakespeare
    • But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him.

    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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