It is to be desired that in prison and police stations complete lists should be made out of the tabooings upon criminals, especially young prisoners who have not attained full development […]
Source: wiktionary
Tabooing
/təˈbuːɪŋ/
Synonyms for "tabooing" (16 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (4)
Noun(4 words)
Strong matches (4)
Noun(4 words)
Related words (8)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
12 entriescommunication tacticcultural phenomenoncultural practicediscourse strategylinguistic phenomenonprohibitionreligious practiceritual practicesocial normsocial practicespeech patterntopic avoidance
More specific
12 entriesdietary tabooingeuphemistic languagefood tabooinglinguistic tabooingpersonal topic avoidancepolitical topic avoidanceritual tabooingsacred tabooingsensitive topic avoidancespeech tabooingtopic avoidanceword substitution
Collocations
10 entriescultural tabooingeuphemistic tabooinglanguage tabooslinguistic tabooingreligious tabooingritual tabooingsacred tabooingsocial tabooingtabooing practicestopic avoidance
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
4 entriesSample sentences
1 total sentences available.