LekhoriLekhoriAn inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
It is true indeed that a taboo - in order to be a proper taboo - must not rest in the general mind on argument or reason.
Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777. The p ...
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Culturally forbidden.
To ban.
To avoid.