'Incest' definitions:
Definition of 'incest'
From: WordNet
noun
Sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)
Definition of 'Incest'
From: GCIDE
- Incest \In"cest\, n. [F. inceste, L. incestum unchastity, incest, fr. incestus unchaste; pref. in- not + castus chaste. See Chaste.] The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law; broadly, sexual relations between closely related persons, usually taken as first cousins or closer. --Shak. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- Spiritual incest. (Eccl. Law) (a) The crime of cohabitation committed between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation. (b) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'incest'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- active algolagnia,
- adultery,
- algolagnia,
- algolagny,
- amphierotism,
- autoeroticism,
- bisexuality,
- concubinage,
- coprophilia,
- criminal conversation,
- cuckoldry,
- exhibitionism,
- extracurricular sex,
- extramarital relations,
- fetishism,
- fornication,
- free love,
- free-lovism,
- heterosexuality,
- homoeroticism,
- homosexualism,
- homosexuality,
- incestuousness,
- lesbianism,
- masochism,
- narcissism,
- necrophilia,
- paraphilia,
- passive algolagnia,
- pedophilia,
- premarital relations,
- premarital sex,
- sadism,
- sadomasochism,
- sapphism,
- scotophilia,
- sexual inversion,
- sexual normality,
- sexual preference,
- swinging both ways,
- transvestitism,
- tribadism,
- tribady,
- voyeurism,
- zooerastia,
- zoophilia