Entertainment / Literature / Taboo: (1) In anthropology, a taboo is a socially prohibited activity. For instance, in classical Greek culture, it was forbidden for a murderer or menstruating woman to enter the sacred space of a temple or the central agora of a city beyond a temenos boundary lest that action spread contagious miasma. (2) A linguistic taboo is a social prohibition that forbids mentioning a word or subject. Commonly, various cultures might have taboos against mentioning bodily fluids, defecation, certain sexual activities, or certain religious terms. These terms often suffer linguistic pejoration and become 'curse-words.' For instance, in Britain, the adjective bloody is considered taboo or impolite to speak aloud as a curse word because of its older religious connotations as a medieval curse about the blood of Christ's wounds. In American English, words describing specific sexual activities or bodily functions usually are taboo for polite conversation, and so on. (also spelled tabu)
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Taboo Noun Synonyms: tabu, anathema, forbidden, interdicted, off limits, out of bounds, verboten, proscribed, banned, prohibited, restricted, unmentionable, unspeakable, censored, censorable, unacceptable, rude, impolite, indecorous, dirty, explicit, outlawed, illegal, illici
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Entertainment / Literature / Tynged: A magical taboo or restriction placed on a hero in Welsh literature, the Welsh equivalent to the Irish geasa. One example from The Mabinogion would be how Culwch's mother places a 'destiny' on him so MORE