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- Dictionarytaboo/təˈbuː/
noun
- 1. a social or religious custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing: "many taboos have developed around physical exposure"
adjective
- 1. prohibited or restricted by social custom: "sex was a taboo subject"
verb
- 1. place under a taboo: "traditional societies taboo female handling of food during this period"
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2 days ago · A person and the child of one of his full, consanguineous or uterine brothers or sisters or with a descendant thereof. The mother or the father and the husband or the wife, the widower or the widow of his child or of another of his descendants. Stepmother or stepfather and the descendant of the other spouse.
5 days ago · Ethics matters because (1) it is part of how many groups define themselves and thus part of the identity of their individual members, (2) other-regarding values in most ethical systems both reflect and foster close human relationships and mutual respect and trust, and (3) it could be “rational” for a self-interested person to be moral, because his or her self-interest is arguably best ...
- The term ethics may refer to the philosophical study of the concepts of moral right and wrong and moral good and bad, to any philosophical theory o...
- Traditionally, ethics referred to the philosophical study of morality, the latter being a more or less systematic set of beliefs, usually held in c...
- No. Understood as equivalent to morality, ethics could be studied as a social-psychological or historical phenomenon, but in that case it would be...
4 days ago · Cambridge Dictionary - English dictionary, English-Spanish translation and British & American English audio pronunciation from Cambridge University Press
1 day ago · Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices.
1 day ago · Vulva. In mammals, the vulva ( pl.: vulvas or vulvae) consists of the external female genitalia. For humans, it includes the mons pubis, labia majora, labia minora, clitoris, vestibule, urinary meatus, vaginal introitus, hymen, and openings of the vestibular glands. The vulva includes the entrance to the vagina, which leads to the uterus, and ...
3 days ago · death, the total cessation of life processes that eventually occurs in all living organisms. The state of humandeath has always been obscured by mystery and superstition, and its precise definition remains controversial, differing according to cultureand legal systems. During the latter half of the 20th century, death has become a strangely ...
1 day ago · First used in English between 1575–85. From the Greek diatribḗ, “pastime, study, discourse;” derivative of diatríbein, literally “thoroughly rub or wear away (time).”. The connection between the meaning of the Greek roots to the present-day definition is that a diatribe is so angry, long, and often full of “hot air” that it ...
