-cest +

(Latin: castus "exempt (from mistakes), free, pure, chaste")


dormcest, hallcest, floorcest
A romantic or sexual relationship with someone who lives in the same co-ed residence hall at a college or university.
fratricest
Sexual intercourse with one's brother.
incest
1. Sexual intercourse between people who are too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child).
2. Sexual relations between people who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom.

The statutory crime of sexual relations with such a near relative.

3. Etymology: from about 1225, "the crime of sexual intercourse between near kindred", from Latin incestum, "unchastity, not chaste, impure"; also specifically, "sex between close relatives"; from in-, "not" + castus, "pure".

In early use also with reference to "sexual relations" or "marriage with someone under a vow of chastity; sometimes distinguished as spiritual incest".

incestuous
1. Relating to or involving a sexual relationship between two people who are considered, for moral or genetic reasons, too closely related to have such a relationship.
2. Having had a sexual relationship with someone who is considered to be too close as a relative.
3. Unhealthily intimate or interconnected; especially, so as to exclude the involvement or influence of others; an incestuous friendship.
4. Being so close or intimate as to prevent proper functioning: "There was an incestuous relationship between organized crime and government."
matrocest
A mother who has sexual intercourse with her son.
patrocest
1. Having sex with one’s father.
2. Sexual intercourse with one's daughter.
sororicest
Sexual intercourse with one's sister.

Related "sex, sexism, sexual lust, sexual deviation" word units: aphrodi-; eroto-; lagneuo-; -lagnia; masochism; porno-; Sadism-; satyr-; sex-; sodom-; whore.


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