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incestuality

incestuality noun: synonym of incestuousness.

Noun

incestuality (countable and uncountable, plural incestualities)

  1. (rare) Synonym of incestuousness.
    • She was unnoticed before and after the loss of her nanny, at age seven. Yet, when Diane grew into her adolescent years, and began to paint and sculpt, her father was quickly to claim her creative talents as a reflection of his own blood rendered legacy. Now, she suddenly became his daughter....1996, Susan Kavaler-Adler, “Diane Arbus and the Demon Lover”, in The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, part 2 (Tales and...
    • [F]amily also appears a double-edged sword, as it can be a source of severe exploitation when familial understandings or arrangements are violated—as in Harold’s coveting of his brother’s wife or the incestuality implied in Francis’s various father/daughter relationships or the lack of love and...2003, Adam Knee, “[Atom] Egoyan’s Exotica: The Uneasy Borders of Desire”, in Eva Rueschmann, editor, Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities, Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN...
    Synonyms:
    incestuousness

Examples of incestuality in a sentence

  • Perhaps it was partly his own “veiled eroticism” and suppressed incestuality that actually impelled in her the compulsion to create, taking its form in her sculptures of swelling pregnant women.1996, Susan Kavaler-Adler, “Diane Arbus and the Demon Lover”, in The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity, New...
  • Here we are in the area of incest, when a transgressive act occurs, or in the area of incestuality, when there is a confusing encroachment on the differences between the topical levels of containers.2014, Pierre Banghozi, “The mythic narrative neo-container in psychoanalytic family therapy: shame and treason as heritage”, in Anna Maria...

Synonyms of incestuality

Forms of incestuality

pluralincestualities

Origin of incestuality

From incestual + -ity.

Questions about incestuality

What does incestuality mean?
Incestuality means synonym of incestuousness.
How do you use incestuality in a sentence?
Perhaps it was partly his own “veiled eroticism” and suppressed incestuality that actually impelled in her the compulsion to create, taking its form in her sculptures of swelling pregnant women.
What part of speech is incestuality?
Incestuality is a noun.
What is the plural of incestuality?
The plural of incestuality is incestualities.

Words near incestuality in the dictionary

  1. incests
  2. incestual
  3. incestualist
  4. incestualists
  5. incestualities
  6. incestuality
  7. incestualize
  8. incestualized
  9. incestualizes
  10. incestualizing
  11. incestually

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