different between taboo vs exclusion

English

Alternative forms

• tabu, tapu

Etymology

Borrowing from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. The word entered English around 1777.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??bu?/, /tæ?bu?/

Noun

taboo (countable and uncountable, plural taboos)

1. An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 213:

     The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus.

2. (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

Translations

Adjective

taboo (comparative more taboo, superlative most taboo)

1. Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

   Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.

2. Culturally forbidden.

Translations

Verb

taboo (third-person singular simple present taboos, present participle tabooing, simple past and past participle tabooed)

1. To mark as taboo.
2. To ban.
3. To avoid.

Translations

Anagrams

• aboot

English

Etymology

From Latin exclusi?, from excl?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks?klu???n/
• Hyphenation: ex?clu?sion
• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

exclusion (countable and uncountable, plural exclusions)

1. The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. [from 17th c.]
2. (obsolete) The act of pushing or forcing something out. [17th-19th c.]
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.6:

     For the exclusion of animals is not merely passive like that of eggs, nor the total action of delivery to be imputed unto the mother, but the first attempt beginneth from the infant [...].

3. An item not covered by an insurance policy. [from 20th c.]

Antonyms

• inclusion

Derived terms

• exclusion chromatography
• exclusion zone
• Pauli exclusion principle

Related terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin exclusio, from excludere.

Noun

exclusion f (plural exclusions)

1. exclusion

Derived terms

Further reading

• “exclusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• excluions